Comments on: Editorial : Missing Children http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/editorial/editorial-missing-children The internet's child care magazine published by a consortium led by The Centre for Children and Youth, University of Northampton,UK Mon, 12 May 2008 07:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: julie http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/editorial/editorial-missing-children#comment-396 julie Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:32:03 +0000 http://www.childrenwebmag.com/articles/editorial/editorial-missing-children#comment-396 Then there are those missing from home as they know it whether family or foster home as their parents have gone thru and may have had illness(stroke heart failure ir seizures,drowning or some other calamity)and have forgotten them and are residing in a multitude of places...hospital,residential homes and if they are lucky foster placements. They may visit and hardly say a word about it...especially if they have LD and or Autism or try and talk and be misinterpreted. They themselves may understand the forget and go thru syndrome themselves quite well...there sepcial needs teachers and staff go thru most years with them and they remember! They get to 18 Years and need of behavioural support and those around feel sorry for them over and over about their lost parents...but their parents grieve too as they can only afford 2 up 2 downs and when they get back they have not got the room or have the finances to take on the large family they have had and forgotten. Over to the MH services and the government to finance...no often the Mh services do not talk to the parents even if they have psychiatrists and psychologists and know something of what has happened...they give them mental health conditions to challenge just for experiencing De ja vu and the recurrent voices from the past. You must realise the expense of illness yourselves....but the pain of going thru for any parent is immence...they have lost families too. Then there are those missing from home as they know it whether family or foster home as their parents have gone thru and may have had illness(stroke heart failure ir seizures,drowning or some other calamity)and have forgotten them and are residing in a multitude of places…hospital,residential homes and if they are lucky foster placements.
They may visit and hardly say a word about it…especially if they have LD and or Autism or try and talk and be misinterpreted.
They themselves may understand the forget and go thru syndrome themselves quite well…there sepcial needs teachers and staff go thru most years with them and they remember!

They get to 18 Years and need of behavioural support and those around feel sorry for them over and over about their lost parents…but their parents grieve too as they can only afford 2 up 2 downs and when they get back they have not got the room or have the finances to take on the large family they have had and forgotten.

Over to the MH services and the government to finance…no often the Mh services do not talk to the parents even if they have psychiatrists and psychologists and know something of what has happened…they give them mental health conditions to challenge just for experiencing De ja vu and the recurrent voices from the past.

You must realise the expense of illness yourselves….but the pain of going thru for any parent is immence…they have lost families too.

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