Reply To: Going off the Derech

EzratHashem-At this point, it doesn’t matter what I want, either Yeshiva or job. He doesn’t want to do anything. He’s really just escaping, living a lazy life and I don’t know how to get him to do anything else.

RationalRose- I am concerned for my other children, and I guess if things don’t improve, I will have to consider all options. But it would be very difficult for me to send him out of the house. During one heated screaming match with him, where I said that if he wanted to live with us, certain house rules would have to be maintained, he actually told me that I’m obligated to take care of him until age 18.