[Pearls Before Swine]

Psychotic parent, or tough love? They report... we decide.

[riverrunner]

Nothing like being exiled to Siberia.

[PapaBear3625]

There are times when many parents sort-of wish they could exile one of their teens to Siberia for a while...

[Da Coyote]

Fly her to Mexico, teach her just a touch of Soanish, and let her walk over.

The Obamadorknwill make her a voter immediately..with the benefits of free medical care, no need to purchase insurance of any kind, and no tuition.

(Sorry, cannot put the /s there because we all know there is no sarc in the above.)

[icwhatudo]

Her teen friends said the (then 15 year old) “drank no more than other teens.”

wow...just wow

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I used to think “Go to your room” was a tough exile.

[Rodamala]

To the Gulag!

[bigbob]

Sounds a bit overstated - a kid being sent to live with family (bio father) wouldn’t make anyones news except for the ability to claim “she was sent to Siberia”.

Big whoop.

[exPBRrat]

Huh....I’m not about to 2nd guess the mother.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

I completely agree with the parents on this one, but would like a few more facts of the case. Having dealt with teenagers for years, I could think of almost nothing better than this to get their attention.

Do NOT advocate her living with an alcoholic or him beating her. DO advocate her working 60 hours a week and hopefully wondering how she can change her behavior in order to live in a decent place once again. If she hasn't changed her attitude, let her stay there.

[Venturer]

This girl has been abandoned.

Whether or not she deserved it is unknown, but it is obvious her mother does not want her back.

Se should consider herself an orphan and do the best she can with her life. It is all up to her now.

[Whats-wrong-with-the-truth]

This has gotta p**s off the bleeding hearts of every stripe. You can't spank or use any other forms of corporal punishment to discipline your disobedient and unruly child but they can. They can come into your home, take your child and bounce that child from one foster care home to another. Homes where the children end up being starved, sold as prostitutes, beaten and abused by strangers and neglected in every other way possible.
Ironically, leave the child with it's natural parents and if the ignore that their child is "drinking no more than any other teenager" the parents are hauled into jail for child neglect, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and child abuse to name a few.
My hat is off to the mother in this article for making the hard decision to send her daughter to Russia. Maybe, if the girl every comes back, she'll be a little more appreciative of the knowledge and life lessons her mother was trying to impart on her. Nothing beats first hand experience especially when one is a know it all teenager unwilling to listen and behave.

Nah... The liberals are simply ticked off that these parents and this girl are not in their social worker's system. LOL...

[Jim Noble]

This is a terrific business opportunity.

“American Teenager Correction Facility”, Novosibirsk, Russia. $5000/week, 13 week minimum stay. Results guaranteed or your money back.

[yldstrk]

Oddly enough, my daughter was aware of a similar situation at her school, a girl had been adopted from Russia, she was very cute but a dickens. Over Christmas break one year the parents sent her back to see what her options were. She would call from Russia drunk. She did come back but and now goes to college already, about 2 years ahead of time.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Interesting discipline, there. “You behave or we’ll send you to Siberia!”

Hopefully, once back in the US, some kindly lawyer will support her suing the pluperfect hell out of her adoptive parents for child abuse and reckless endangerment.

[MamaTexan]

I'm all for tough love, but a child comes with a legal responsibility. She left when she was 2, then was adopted by the man her mother married.

So they basically sent her to a stranger in Russia and left her there.

Sounds more like they were just to cowardly to deal with the situation. In a just world, they would be charged for child abandonment as well.

[Darteaus94025]

Too bad Hillary’s parents didn’t do this...

[conservative cat]

I have a friend whose parents sent her back to their home country to live with relatives a couple years as a teen, because she was out of control. Said it was the best thing that could have happened to her.

[Stosh]

Wouldn’t a flight to Detroit be cheaper?

[Regulator]

Novosibirsk:

So it is Siberia but...she's Russian. She'll learn to live with the cold.

Mommy will be in the U.S. looking for another scam. She doesn't sound like anything but a cheap opportunist herself.

Maybe the daughter was the apple who didn't fall far from the tree.