Soliek
“There are so many kids that come from normal families who fell through the cracks due to getting involved with the wrong crowd or internet….”
I agree with your post. Let’s put “getting involved with the wrong crowd or internet” under “spiritual problems” and add that to the above list.
WIY
“I know plenty of people from messed up families and the only reason they got somewhere in life is because they decided to take responsibility for their lives.”
Assuming the kid is willing to take responsibility for their life, they are still going to “need to shift their priorities in order to survive. But when that happens, even though they are, in effect, the products of a normal society, abnormalities and all, they get shafted by the community, seen as second-class citizens, judged unfavorably. So where does such a person go?”
We have to stop tolerating all this garbage and stop enabling kids to think that they have an option to go off the derech.”
I’m sorry, but the last time I checked, these kids don’t ask for anyone’s permission before going OTD. So what exactly are we doing that “enables” them to have this option?