David, on Tiffany

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From the latest New Yorker:

"In late May of this year, a few weeks shy of her fiftieth birthday, my youngest sister, Tiffany, committed suicide. She was living in a room in a beat-up house on the hard side of Somerville, Massachusetts, and had been dead, the coroner guessed, for at least five days before her door was battered down."

More here.

Comments

[ron_newman]

She wasn't sent to just any old "disciplinary school". She was sent to this torture chamber in Maine.

[avjudge]

Yes, but remember 30+ years ago there was no internet on which to find these stories. And I would assume most parents in this situation are desperate, and have tried what's available locally -- or feel a need to escape the problem for a while (and hand it over to someone they're told has techniques & training to handle it better than they can) for their own and the rest of the family's sanity & functioning.