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04 Sep 05:30am

Filed under: Drugs, Julie Myerson, Teenager, The Lost Child

Few things sting more than a betrayal but when you’re a teenager it’s brutal.

Having to decide who you are and who you want to be is a tough job and often your right to privacy becomes your most important weapon. Who doesn’t remember screaming matches with their parents about what they should be entitled to?

So 20 year old Jake Myerson’s reaction to his mother’s book “The Lost Child” a story of his teenage struggle with drugs - that ended with his parents kicking him out of the house - isn’t surprising:

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Terry Wright says:

04:08pm | 04/09/09

PFFFT. Tough Love is as farcical as skunk/cannabis being addictive. It seems more like the family was so blinded by anti-drug propaganda they forget that Jake was also their child growing up like a normal teenager. I imagine that much of her claims were exaggerated like all good anti-drug warriors… Read more »
Bitten says:

10:58am | 04/09/09

17 is not a child and no person has the right to put a family’s safety, home life and personal relationships at risk. I don’t care if this turd of a child was ‘lost’, fact is, all of us were 17 at some stage. Some of us managed not to… Read more »

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