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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (14708)	4/25/1998 11:46:00 AM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

You don't think a ten-year-old deserves to feel he has a home? Or was that how he was supposed to feel about boarding school?

To: jlallen who wrote (14708)	4/25/1998 5:16:00 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 20981

<Not having a room in a house where you do not live hardly qualifies as the height of cruelty.> Really? It certainly strikes me as the height of cruelty!! Every child needs a place that is the center of their universe, where their little treasures and collections are, a sanctuary which is theirs. A child coming home periodically from boarding school would especially need this place as a retreat, and since Michael was adopted, he had obviously already been rejected once and would feel this most keenly. One of the most agreed-upon rules for children of divorce is that they need their own, reliably private space at the home of the parent they don't live with, so that when they visit their non-custodial parent they feel safe and secure and everything is familiar. Children are very conservative by nature, not liking or thriving on change. To dump a child who is already obviously hurting into what is essentially a camping situation on visits home from boarding school strikes me as almost sadistic. Certainly, it shows that he was not a priority to his parents, and children need to feel very important to their parents in order to grow up emotionally healthy.