You can't throw them out on the street, and no one else will take them, so what do you do? Your best, and at all cost, protect the kids. But trying to compensate and denying the problem are two different things. I happen to homeschool, but I sure wouldn't leave him alone with the kids. And when he got bad, he had to live with his Mom for a few months until we could get him stable. And I will tell you this - I SO desperately wanted more children, and once he got diagnosed, that was for having kids. Because it would have been irresponsible for me to do that to a child. And that really hurt. But such is life.
?I can tell you that it is very easy to fall into self deception like that.
I know what you are talking about. Few others here do. You'd think they would refrain from posting their ill-informed ridiculous emotional opinions in areas about which they know nothing at all. If there were a site about nuclear physics I would certainly refrain from posting. Yet after reading a headline or two they are all experts. The sheep march on, carefully.