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According to another poster on this thread, Jeb Bush knew his daughter had a problem. He should have been proactive in dealing with it, since he knows that his job as an elected official leaves him wide open to attack for failing to do so, thereby threatening his ability to do the job he was elected to do! It shouldn't have taken his daughter's arrest to get him to act.

How do we know he had not been dealing with it? Let's face it, she's an adult in the eyes's of the law, and short of locking her in a room, she gets to call the shots in her life. She did and now she will have to go into a court of law to have the matter heard.

Point taken.

According to another poster on this thread, Jeb Bush knew his daughter had a problem. He should have been proactive in dealing with it, since he knows that his job as an elected official leaves him wide open to attack for failing to do so, thereby threatening his ability to do the job he was elected to do! It shouldn't have taken his daughter's arrest to get him to act.

How do we know he had not been dealing with it? Let's face it, she's an adult in the eyes's of the law, and short of locking her in a room, she gets to call the shots in her life. She did and now she will have to go into a court of law to have the matter heard.

Fury, you are absolutely correct. Anyone who has dealt with a substance abuser knows that there are no easy answers and no sure answers. If the substance abuser is an adult, you have no power over them unless they are a threat to themselves or others. You can talk, reason, suggest, plead and beg until you are blue in the face. Until they reach "bottom" and make a decision on their own to change, there is little you can do except wait for that moment when they seek help and decide to change their lives.

Let's face it, she's an adult in the eyes's of the law, and short of locking her in a room, she gets to call the shots in her life.

If she was a Kennedy, then her old man could have given her a lobotomy...