Posted on 10/05/2016 12:48:27 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A 43-year-old man who lived in isolation at his parents' home in Bavaria for three decades has been taken to a psychiatric hospital and German police are investigating whether his parents did anything wrong.
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Being a shut-in for thirty years seems to be the issue. The parents surely knew that much.
He wasn’t a shut-in for 30 years when the school decided he was unfit to attend, so obviously at least some of his issues predated that.
If a school said my 13 year old was unfit to attend I would find another school and a better solution than to have a shut-in for 30 years running...
If the child was declared ‘unfit’ for school 30 years ago, where were the social workers at that time? If the adult child was checked out in the hospital and found to be well nourished, why wasn’t he immediately returned to his stable environment for follow-up in the home? The headline implies wrong-doing - are the authorities looking for a problem that isn’t there?
A situation like this could very well involve some sort of chronic neuropsychiatric disorder in the person in question.It's not necessarily a question of abuse or neglect or a "failure to launch" scenario.
I think his mental condition is called agoraphobia.
My friend's sister in law is in her fifties, she operates at the level of an eight year old. "Shoving her out and changing the locks" would kill her. She is not capable of living on her own or living outside a very structured environment.
It sounds like the parents were doing the best they could and now the state has, as usual, stuck their noses into something that is none of their business and probably traumatized their son.
At some point, it would become a public issue. In this case, the death of the last available family/trusted caregiver.
Most people with handicapped children or relatives have made quite careful, layered provisions for them.
The gov’t should keep their nose out of it. Obviously they guy didn’t want to leave the safety of his house and his parents’ care. Leave him alone rather than uproot and traumatize him.
This condition has no known cause, but there are supposedly genetic links with other personality disorders and schizophrenia. It also has no known effective treatmen. Putting a person like this out of the house wold be like leaving a baby on a railroad track. Probably die quickly and badly.
Understood. My point was addressing the rare circumstances where a plan is nonexistent or encounters something genuinely beyond its capabilities. In any case, an ideal goal of such plans is to avoid government intervention and to remove the need for inquiry.
I am hopeful that they just apologize for bothering the family and go on their way. It’s bad enough to be disabled, it’s another to be uprooted from a familiar setting.
*** I am hopeful that they just apologize for bothering the family and go on their way. ***
Would that be the same German Social Services that wants to terminate the parental rights of the homeschooling Christian family that, IIRC, fled to the US, but we’re slated for deportation as their request for asylum was turned down?
Don’t remember all the particulars.
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