Reply To: Does it really matter why kids go off the derech?

The point here is, if you want to help you can’t walk over to a child and say “what’s your story?”. If you want to help, you go over to a child and say “I’m here, how can I help you?”. That is the attitude YOU have to bring to the table. If s/he connects with you their story will eventually come out piece by piece and you will have the opportunity to help them with making sense of it, or dealing with it, whatever the case may be. It is not important to know why they went OTD before approaching them. That is not necessary in order to help them.