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When your teenager gets arrested and blames you

My 17-year-old son got arrested for vandalism last weekend and when I picked him up from jail he looked at me like I was the enemy and I do not know when we became strangers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent confronts the reality that their child's poor choices may reflect deeper ruptures in their relationship and their own parenting failures.

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“Where Are You with Adolescence and the parent-teen relationship?”

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