Discussion

In this section, we will provide you with some inspirational ideas that can be of help when you have to discuss how a parent should act if his/her child is in trouble. 

As pointed out by “The Rescue”, parents can have different reactions when their child is in trouble. For instance, the father is still hopeful that his son can be saved from his addiction, in spite of the fact that he has been doing drugs for twenty years. The mother, on the other hand, has given up hope and her pain has turned into anger. Instead, she feels the son’s addiction is taking her husband away from her.

In your comment, you could also think about other things that might influence the parents’ behavior in similar situations:

• For instance, think about how, these days, children are more independent and parents work much more, thus making it harder to observe from the beginning when a child shows signs that he/she could be in trouble.
• The age of the child is another important aspect you can focus on. One the one han...