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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
He got to skin and bones somehow. Obviously he wasn't eating or at least wasn't keeping the food down. This is crazy.
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Oh, yeah, I didn't mean to suggest that I thought he was eating; I just wonder how much might have been related to his own elective behavior, rather than the restrictions of his host family.
Sometimes teenagers do weird stuff like try to punish someone else by harming themselves. They demonstrate weird thinking that in this case must have gone along the lines of "I'll show my host family that they didn't serve enough food by refusing to compensate by eating more when I'm away from their home."
Well, sure the host family didn't serve him enough food under those circumstances maybe, but they didn't starve him if he had other access to food and money, which he should have if his parents were communicating with him and acting normally.
And let's all learn this lesson too: it's one thing if your kid's potential exchange program encourages leaving your kid alone for a while at the start of the exchange so they make a smoother transition. If your kid's exchange program just encourages you not to talk to your kid for a year, warning bells should go off.
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