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Therapeutic schools can help control teen relationship issues
By Staff Writer
 According to the Nemours Foundation, when teenagers are in a healthy relationship each partner is able to maintain his or her own separate identity. Although dating does involve making compromises, there should never be one individual who is forced to change his or her interests, hobbies or family relationships. Although this is the ideal situation, the teenage years can be confusing and tumultuous, causing many youths to fall into what they do not see as an abusive relationship. For example, a mother recently wrote to Tulsa World that her daughter is in the type of one-sided relationship that the Nemours Foundation warns youths about. After only three months of dating, the woman reports that her daughter has shut herself off from her family and friends in order to spend time with her new boyfriend. Although her teen was accepted to a few colleges, she has decided to give up on that dream in order to move out West with the young boy so that he can attend a university in that area. If parents, like this mother, feel that their teens are sacrificing their interests for the sake of their boyfriend or girlfriend, they may want to consider enrolling their children in a therapeutic boarding school.
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