How many other parents are harboring children who they know are crazier than a shat house rat and pose a danger to the surrounding community?

Ooh...I hoep the FBI geeks are able to recover the data.

RE: #1 - I am not going there, based on every comment from ldotters who live with a child who has mental illness.

If the quotes in this article are true, Adam Lanza should have been placed in a very restrictive home for the mentally ill. His parents had the money to afford a good setting that would have better met his needs than a huge, empty house and just his mother.

#3, just where do you think he was supposed to be? Nothing in the article qualifies a person for in-person psychiatric treatment. A parent can´t force an adult child into treatment. Where do you think these places are that you would have put Adam? Caring parents look all over the country for facilities to care for their adult children; they are few and far between. Most have years-long waiting lists.

#1, just what are the parents supposed to do? Mental health professionals told me that I should let mine be homeless on the streets. What do you think of that advice? The article over the weekend - the mom said they recommended that he commit a crime so the criminal justice system could deal with her 13 yo son. Do you want to be the victim of that crime so the kid can get help?

(Not that we don´t know the answer to the questions

Who decided to close all the mental institutions in this country, and why?

How´s that working out?

#6, the ACLU led the way. Here´s proof:

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/aclu-killed-connecticut-forcible-institutionalization-law-that-might-have-prevented-killings/

Ah, yes, #6 and #7 -- but few people know that. The libs continue to spout that Reagan closed all of the facilities (because he was a mean Republican, of course). So they continue to get a free pass for everything.

I didn´t want to comment until I had something new to add to the discussion. None of us really knows what was in the kid´s mind, but I know a family who has a son about the same age dealing with developmental problems. He knows he´s different from others, but he handles himself clumsily in social situations. He goes on talking jags, because so few people talk to him. He has been diagnosed with Asperger´s. His parents, who deal with him all of the time, feel that if he worked in a structured environment with a routine he would have more self confidence & be more "normal." The problem is, that even though there are programs & employers that will put these people to work - there is no way to force their participation. More emphasis needs to be put on keeping them BUSY & making productive citizens of them instead of handing them "crazy" checks & otherwise ignoring them.

The ACLU needs to be held accountable for contributing towards laws that limit or prevent institutionalization. I also hate to say that there is precedence against mental institutions and historical abuses.

There have been cases where people have been put in mental hospital for confinement or punishment by a relative wanting the person´s wealth or a husband wanting to get rid of the ´crazy´ wife. On the other side of the coin are willing administrators needing the money in the form of more patients to keep these facilities open considering the lack of gov and insurance money. Insurance companies don´t believe in schizophrenia which is probably why daddy kept throwing money at it hoping to make the problem go away.

It appears the mother had been dealing with a very sick son ´by her lonesome´ and didn´t know how to channel the 22K a month she was getting. She would have had to physically commit him with no backing from the authorities or touchy feely psychiatrists. Her drawing him into guns shows she was losing it herself. There are many more out there like Adam and Nancy.

The data is there. The police will check the ISP and follow where he went online.