Thank you for writing this, Barbara!  I just have to hope that everyone in 'the system' has the open-minded, full perspective that you have, before another´s future is destroyed, as in edwin´s example.

The law is so cut and dry, so totally unemotional, it can be inhumane, it can mark lives forever and never find anything resembling balance.  I´m really glad this family has you working for some equilibrium, some sense,...

Most all of us have been really ´lucky´ as children and as parents, haven´t we!

Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.