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"I was afraid, I needed to breathe", these overwhelmed parents who asked for help

2021-03-02T14:35:42.137Z


TESTIMONIALS - Some parents do not have the energy to deal with a teenager who is reluctant to authority, violent, academically apathetic. Rather than let it happen, our witnesses reacted, some going so far as to place their child.


The photos of the time, it was four years ago, show an ordinary, happy family.

Agathe (this name has been changed), a teenage girl with a round face, lifts her little brother in the air, poses near her mother and her stepfather in a plaid skirt in front of the Christmas tree.

Who would guess that she was living with a foster family at the time and only joined hers for one weekend out of two?

She seems so… normal, one is surprised: she, a potential delinquent?

Her mother, Isabelle, opines: “

At the time, I was afraid that she would become one.

She was violent, unpredictable.

The day she hit me in front of her three-year-old brother because she wanted to go shopping and I refused - the little one had to take a nap - I had no choice.

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Read also: How (and should we) empower the parents of delinquent children?

An extreme measure normally granted to parents, provided for by the code of social action and families when they "

are no longer able to take care of their child, in the event of hospitalization, illness or material difficulties and / or

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Source: lefigaro

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