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Originally Posted by arvidez
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"they die" a psyche dr said in Raising Ophelia(i think) about the early teen years of the girls he was seeing. girls because i dont know.
i would take the teen's responsibly off the table. would be like blaming a toddler for a diaper rash or for eating the paint chips. i mean he IS the one who shit himself.
PARENTS>village is my take
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It’s a spectrum, the level of responsibility of the victim is proportional to age, to me
It is the parent’s legal (and we would all hope moral) responsibility to protect the teen. They are also the only entity which can sign the teen up for any formal treatment
But it is possible for a parent to be as vigilant as they can considering they also have the attention towards keeping the lights on and other various important things, and for a teen to still surprise them with a suicide
So then the responsibility goes back to the teen to be willing to tell someone. Even if they told their friend, a good parent would have that friend’s number and the friend could tell the parent. But if they don’t tell anyone, not a parent, not a friend, no one, and just do it, almost nothing can protect them at that point
To me, there is a “due diligence”. And it is possible for a parent to have done this and still lost their kid