> Moving ... to a different lifestyle. When environment is part of the problem, The idea of returning to an unchanged situation seems unlikely to be productive

> Moving ... to a different lifestyle. When environment is part of the problem, The idea of returning to an unchanged situation seems unlikely to be productive. A couple of thoughts: Most adolescents need to find a 'peer group' to be part of on the path to independent adulthood. Easy for some; hard for others. I recall a high school student who was having problems and who moved to another ('alternative') school in a different part of the country for a year. There they found a very supportive peer group. When they returned to the original school as a senior, the problems were gone. The school hadn't changed ... their perspective had. I recall from history that a good many 'notable' historical figures left home in their early teens. They were perhaps one-in-a-hundred who are remembered ... not at all uncommon in the past. Were those times more dangerous? One of my grandparents was 16yo when they left behind family and friends in Europe to sail to the US. Another, 16yo grandparent left rural Canada behind to grow-up in the US. (Both joined friends/relatives.) Are these options legal now? Are we 'trapping' our action-seeking/outsider teens? Is 'therapy' another name for 'my way or the highway'?