FAMILY IN CRISIS

Mari A. Schaefer

Nov. 4--As coach of the Eagles, Andy Reid has excelled at keeping the lid on, brushing off questions about team controversies with a countenance as stony as Mount Rushmore.

That lid grew airtight when it came to problems at home, with Reid bolting from briefings when anyone dared to broach his sons' legal woes.

It therefore fell to a Montgomery County judge last week to publicly reckon with the dynamics of what he deemed "a family in crisis."

In skewering the structure and supervision in the Reids' Main Line home, Judge Steven T. O'Neill raised the conundrum facing countless other homes in which drug-addicted adult children still live: What is the parents' responsibility -- let alone their ability -- to monitor and control their grown children?

"You've got to take accountability of what goes on in the house," O'Neill told Reid and his wife, Tammy, in an extraordinary lecture Thursday at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown.

His remarks came as O'Neill sent the Reids' two oldest sons -- Garrett, 24, and Britt, 22 -- to county prison for up to 23 months each on gun- and drug-related crimes.

The sentencing hearing also laid bare the depths and duration of the Reid brothers' drug dependencies.

A presentence investigation revealed Garrett Reid to have been a street dealer in North Philadelphia and on the Main Line. Britt Reid's addiction, the investigation found, began at age 14 with painkillers prescribed after he hurt his back lifting weights at Harriton High School in Lower Merion Township.

He remains addicted to painkillers.

O'Neill reviewed those histories before a courtroom audience already stunned by news that 89 pills had been found that morning in Garrett Reid's jail cell as he was being brought to court.

Investigators concluded he had concealed them in his rectum before arriving at prison Tuesday evening. He had been ordered there after failing a routine drug test, and now faces additional charges of smuggling contraband.

"I have some real difficulty with the structure in which these two boys live," O'Neill said, noting the guns, ammunition and assortment of drugs that at various times had been in the Reids' home and cars. "What is the supervision?"

Mike Wood, a family therapist at the Livengrin Foundation for Addiction Recovery in Bensalem, noted that addicts are very manipulative and creative, good at concealing things. It may be unfair to hold parents accountable for them into adulthood, he said.





I funud this informaton in Philadelphia Inquirer,The (AP) 11/04/2007
wwww.yahoo.com/family in crisis.


MY OPINION


ON MY OPINION I THINK THE PARENT OF THOSE GUY TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THEIR CHILDREN'S AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING GOOd OR BAD.those guy were in trouble in drugs and the parents don't even know abouit so we know the they live in a poor country but the think that i don't understand is that if they are in drug where they get money to get it that is Whit i don't understand i think the parent more care of their children cause this is a very huge crisis.

why the children explotation?

Child exploitation is one of the biggest problem of the plane. It is increasing constantly. More than 250 millions children between the age 5 and 14 work in the world; it adds up to 11,5 million teens between the age of 15 and 17. Most of them live in countries of the third world, Asia, Africa, but also in Europe, and North America. In certain countries like India, Indonesia as well Bangladesh, the children represent 10 at 15% of the labor force.Up to now,dealing was mainly associate with the trade of the product. However during the las ten years, we have seem more and more children being sold. What is the most difficult thing for the children it is that they must defend their life every day to face up to the violence of all forms physical, verbal or psychological.


A work carried out by a child can be qualified as exploitation when:

4 The child must work full- time at an early age.
4 The child must assume too heavy responsibilities.
4The child not paid equitably for the work that it does.
4The work robs the child of his dignity and his self-esteem The only way
to progress in the fight against the child labor is to tell the consummer
and the government exert some pressure in refusing to buy or in ceasing to
import the manufactured items made by children.

children's domestic exploitation reached today the developed countries. It is difficult to the delimit this phenomenon that usually concern young girl. They have black or dark color skin. They being to work between the age of 10 and 12 sometimes work more than 8 hours a day. The victims of domestic exploitation are more vulnerable and it is difficult to protect them. More so, they are often very badly paid, sometimes not at all and their working conditions depend of their employer.
The child often undertake a too heavy work load. They wash, cook clean and take care of the children.they sleep on the floor or in the children's bedroom.


I found thise article in www.google.com/childrens in crisis

My research

I write this topic because is very sad how this kind of children are trade, and how the bad people abuse them.Every month a receive information of different children, and they send you a letter, and a envelope, the letter is about how they are trade,and how we can help them, the envelope is if you wanna help them with money. So Every moth I send money to two of them because I like ti help them. Before I tough all this was false because I didn't believe I just think that maybe people just want you to expend your money.Also I was thinking the slavery just exist in the poor countries,like Africa,Asia,etc. But that is not true because in the rich countries exist too,like:France,Europe,etc. If I should have to much money I will went to those countries and help them to get their freedoms.

My research

Children prostitution.