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This is supposed to show this girl out to be completely uncaring, but it actually looks pretty much like a standard distraction technique. Rather than face-up to taking responsibility for their actions, they try to divert the conversation to something completely different.
Karen's 14-year-old daughter thought her mother was using hers, the mother said. The girl was upset, began yelling. Her father tried to quiet her down.
She kicked him in the groin.
2) Destruction of property Her daughter had trashed the apartment while her parents were gone, however. The mirrors were smashed. Karen's perfume bottles were in pieces.
3) Deceitfulness or theft She called the police.
The call that police received was that the girl had been beaten by her father who had left, according to police. Twenty minutes later the girl called police back, claiming that he was coming home and that she was bleeding from her arm and had a black eye.
4) Serious violations of rules
Do I really need to highlight all the violations the girl went through in the course of this incident?
5) The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. She told him her daughter had rage issues and was seeking treatment.
In answer to the OP, I'd admit that I was raising a probable murderer or at least a threat to society and act accordingly.
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Sell her to the Chinese for psychiatric experiments.
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From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"
This girl sounds like she needs mental help. Some people just aren't wired right.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
This girl has rage issues, so I have to assume it's biological, not mental. My ex-girlfriend has rage issues as well; it's not a pretty sight.
I am skeptical as to whether a shrink can really help a person with rage problems, simply because the act of reasoning is just exercise for the brain, it may help temporarily, but it won't cure it.
Medication is the best we have to offer.
The girl needs medication and supervision, if that fails, send her to war, she'll do well.
Yeah, it's the parent's fault. Society has taken away any control by parents and schools, but wonder why metal detectors are needed.
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He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
Karen's 14-year-old daughter thought her mother was using hers, the mother said. The girl was upset, began yelling. Her father tried to quiet her down.
She kicked him in the groin.
2) Destruction of property Her daughter had trashed the apartment while her parents were gone, however. The mirrors were smashed. Karen's perfume bottles were in pieces.
3) Deceitfulness or theft She called the police.
The call that police received was that the girl had been beaten by her father who had left, according to police. Twenty minutes later the girl called police back, claiming that he was coming home and that she was bleeding from her arm and had a black eye.
4) Serious violations of rules
Do I really need to highlight all the violations the girl went through in the course of this incident?
5) The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. She told him her daughter had rage issues and was seeking treatment.
In answer to the OP, I'd admit that I was raising a probable murderer or at least a threat to society and act accordingly.
First substantive DD post in a decade.
Also, it's thoughtful.
Compare with Slowwy's contribution.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
I imagine most of the acting out is a sign of a poor upbringing though ...
Not necessarially. From the link earlier:
Recently, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study conducted by neuroscientist Jean Decety and colleagues at the University of Chicago reported that youth with aggressive conduct disorder (who have psychopathic tendencies) have a different hemodynamic brain response when confronted with empathy-eliciting stimuli.
She's likely incapable of feeling empathy.
I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio
· Boy, 16, has to make own fire, dig toilet, pump water· Critics attack nine-month bleak exile from family
Violent German teen sent to cope in Siberia
· Boy, 16, has to make own fire, dig toilet, pump water
· Critics attack nine-month bleak exile from family
German authorities exasperated at the antisocial behaviour of a 16-year-old boy have sent him to a remote Siberian village for an "intensive educational experience", it emerged yesterday. The unusual measure by youth welfare officers in the central state of Hesse raised fresh questions about how to deal with delinquents who have been blamed for a series of ugly crimes.
The boy, who has not been identified, was dispatched east after behaving violently in school and at home and attacking his mother. He is being forced to fend for himself in boot camp-style conditions in the forlorn village of Sedelnikovo, several hours drive from the city of Omsk, in the western Siberian interior.
He has had to cope by collecting and chopping firewood to make his own fires, digging his own toilet and pumping water supplies from a well. He will stay there for nine months, separated from family and friends, the internet and television, under a programme designed specifically for him.
Under the supervision of a Russian-speaking German assistant, the boy is also attending school. Once he returns to Germany, he will be monitored for a further two years.
"We deliberately sought a region that was particularly lacking in allure," said Stefan Becker, the head of the youth and social department in Giessen, calling it "the ultima ratio" in the attempt to re-educate the boy, for whom all other measures had failed. "[The youth] spends most of his time trying to cope with his day to day existence, living in conditions like we had 30 or 40 years ago," he added. "If he doesn't chop the wood, his room is cold. If he doesn't fetch water, he can't wash."
The Hesse authorities have defended the move as an "educational adventure" and say an inspector who visited the boy believed the "treatment" was working. Hundreds of other youths have been sent on similar programmes to countries as diverse as Greece and Kyrgyzstan.
The details have emerged in the midst of one of the most heated state election campaigns that Germany has known for years, in which youth crime has featured prominently. The Christian Democratic state president of Hesse, Roland Koch, has called for boot camps and "warning-shot" arrests to be applied to young criminals, and his election speeches have particularly focused on clamping down on immigrants, said to be responsible for half of all crimes committed by the under-21s.
The chancellor, Angela Merkel, has backed Koch's campaign, saying that the discussion was long overdue. Koch's stance on crime and immigration has won national resonance and the Hesse vote on January 27 - as well as one in the state of Lower Saxony on the same day - is an early test for Merkel ahead of next year's federal election.
But the decision to send the teenager to Siberia is a step too far for some, particularly as equally bleak, though not as cold, regions are to be found in Germany. One commentator called it "more akin to a reality TV show than a social welfare programme".
Some have described it as a cost-cutting measure, which, at €150 a day (£111), is about a third of the price of a similar scheme in Germany.
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