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5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Boy, 15 Jan 2009
The saddest story I have ever read about a young boy placed in a unfortunate situation caused and executed by his parents, to justify their own choices as parents. I cannot help but wonder if instead of taking Nic to every counsler in the U.S.A. if his Father and Mother had placed HIM as the most important responsibility, instead of the young boy having to make all the sacrifices, if he might have been better equipped to deal with what he always believed was his failures, but were ultimately yours, you both, as his parents should have owned them. Then instead of showing understanding and more importantly accountability for your actions, you placed guilt on a young boy who only needed to know he belonged somewhere in your lives and was not a burden or a BLACK SHEEP. Shame on you both, and Karen, the stepmother, who showed and proved time and time again Nic had no place in her "little perfect family". She loved a man who had a child with needs and hurts brought on by his circumstances from this father and x wife, actually, he was a victim of circumstances which were out of his control, but he was made to feel responsible for his choices, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but nothing out of the ordinary from a kid growing up in the 20 century, as if he was the only one who owned those. His issues were not HIS alone, and his place in this family, which was torn apart by his mother and father and then by a New Woman, when all adults involved should have been the adults and let Nic be a care free kid who makes mistakes because they are KIDS, and he just needed to feel a part of this newness of a family which once included just him and his Dad, he did not ask for change he was made to adapt, PERIOD and KAREN knew this going in to this marriage but failed to include him or allow, David, his father to make amends for his failure to his son. You ALL made choices for his life, with only one problem, Nic had to live WITH your choices FOR HIM as his parents, while you all accomplished and lived your lives. Afer reading Nic's book, Tweaked, did I truely get the whole picture. And only after reading his story did I truely get whose trials and tribulations Nic was made to endure. You believed he should hit bottom, well the bottom was when you ignored the fact that you had made a choice long before you failed at your marriage, the choice was placing the needs of a child who had and has no choices in adult decisions for their lives but made to suffer the consquenses, that was the bottom of your failures. I hope you have embraced this boy now and only then can I consider him your Beautiful Boy. And Mother shame Shame. Mothers do not quit kids. And Karen, you were living in his world, he was not and should not have been made to feel he was living in your World. Shame on you too. Pray that your two children you protected from Nic have no issues, even they showed more adult acceptance than you adults showed to Nic. Nic you are so much better than you know. I applaud YOU.
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