“Soliek, in your experience, what are the top 3 reasons kids of otd and end up in our place?”
abuse, wrong friends, and overlooked issues such as learning disabilities, mental illness, or emotional problems.
ultimately what does it is the wrong crowd, the other two are just reasons a kid joins that crowd…
all this other stuff is nothing but fluff. seriously…all this garbage that people say drives kids off the derech is completely contrived and rubbish. one or two kids perhaps, but certainly not the overwhelming majority. when people make threads like this its because someone did something that irked and they feel the need to tell the world just how peeved they are, and in making their point, since it is usually not valid enough to stand on its own, they pull out the OTD bogeyman.