Topic : 08/13 Babysitter Gone Bad

I raised three children with the help of friends but with out my ex (3000 miles away, thank God), and my kids tried everything that kids try, I also knew when the girls became women. as i was always open to be talked to about anything. I am a DAD, and the most damage you could do to a child is tell them how disappointed you are in them, or disown them, no matter what they have done.

They are yours forever...

I wish i could be alone with that dad for a half hour, but i know i would go to jail. Watching his little girl tell how her hero just threw her away had me balling, and I'm pretty tough. Man I am so mad about that self centered bastard I could just spit.

First, I am worry about the other children.  If Dr. Phil is so concerned about children - then why doesn't he contact  Social Services about those children.  They are in danger with that mother & the people in that house.  This is one of those times - I think Dr. Phil didn't go far enough.  Those other children need help, now.

Dr. Phil,

I recently lost my beautiful 19 year godchild to a heroin overdose.  My brother and sister in law were doting loving parents.   She lived in a good neighborhood, went to a great school, was beautiful and had a bubbly personality like Stephanie.  Just like Stephanie her boyfriend turned her onto heroin.   She died on March 5th 2008 in my brothers house while he and his wife were sleeping upstairs.  They sent her to the Menninger Clinic in Texas to a tune of $1,000 a day, she was out of rehab a month.  She snuck out of the house to meet her boyfriend, got some heroin came home took it and died.  There is so much more to this story, however, up until March 5th, my impression of heroin addicts was something totally different than what it is today.  The truth is heroin is in our schools, it comes in pill formats, it is in upper class neighborhoods.  It is very important that you keep bringing this up to the forefront, to help save lives.  There is nothing more painful than to loose a child.    Please don't stop doing shows like this!

The mother would have to shed alot of things about herself!! and she wouldn't do it when she was responsibable for her daughter when she was young, can't see her doing it now and losing another husband and her addiction for someone she never showed any concern  for, in the first place..

Sad to say but the mother will be Steph down fall, if she is not very strong when she gets out.

Thats just my opinion, just based on what I seen on the show from the mother, but we can always hope that its not so.

Dr Phil,

I have to appologize for you. I am an addict/alcoholic in recovery and as it is true we lie in the midst of the disease, we are usually pretty honest when we want help. You seem to condemn addicts too easily right off the bat. Let me share something I think may shed some light on this antiquated tactic; addicts have beat themselves up so much more than anything you can or will ever say to them. Breaking them down to build them up no longer applies in 2008. We addicts do a great job of breaking ourselves down. In fact, my mind often tells me things, I would not say to my worst enemy. It is time we start treating addiction as a disease and those afflicted with more kindness than you show during one of your oh so famous TV stints. You are a man of honor and integrity and I would hope more from you.

Thanks, Karen Borba