If this all went down after she was 18, it could be pretty hard to get her help. They can't force her into a psych ward even if they could find her a bed at one.
Plus, the same can be said for someone who has a chemical dependency issue. You can keep trying to get them help and if they are 17 or younger you can force them into programs, but honestly, until they want to be different, they'll just keep doing as they please. Sometimes the best thing is not letting them depend on you.
Also, in the one of the links posted upthread, they printed an email where she asked if she could come home, and her dad's response was basically that she could come home if A) she stopped treating her mother like shit, B) stopped seeing her bf, and C) started going to the counseling that they had set up for her.
So it doesn't sound like they just didn't try at all and said 'fuck it.'
I believe you because I see them on TV calling their mamas bitches and yelling "I HATE YOU!" stomping off and slamming doors and I think, "them chaps ain't go no home training." LOL My grandma popped me in the mouth (lightly, it was more a tap but I got the point) a couple of years ago because I told her her to hush for a minute. I'M GROWN.
So based on the information available to me now, if this were ME, unless and until my child wanted to do what I asked her to do in the home I provided for her, she could stay her ass with them folks and they would be dead to me too, because you are undermining my parenting*.
*I have no children
Have you guys seen those people, what the hell are their names, the Lehmans maybe and their child transformation books or something? Most of the radio commercials start with "I still remember the day my son screamed that he hated me and slammed the door in my face." The first time it came on the radio, my oldest child said, "That was the day I went to jail for killing my kid."
Plus, the same can be said for someone who has a chemical dependency issue. You can keep trying to get them help and if they are 17 or younger you can force them into programs, but honestly, until they want to be different, they'll just keep doing as they please. Sometimes the best thing is not letting them depend on you.
Also, in the one of the links posted upthread, they printed an email where she asked if she could come home, and her dad's response was basically that she could come home if A) she stopped treating her mother like shit, B) stopped seeing her bf, and C) started going to the counseling that they had set up for her.
So it doesn't sound like they just didn't try at all and said 'fuck it.'
Team parents.
Did you see where she asked with a smiley face at the end like she hadn't been a real live asshole for however long? And her response was basically, "So I can't come home then. FUCK YOU!"