He’s A Former Heroin Addict Who Recently Caught His Teenaged Son Smoking And Drinking, So He Brought His Son Out On The Streets To See What Addiction Is Really Like, But Now His Son’s Mother Is Upset With Him
This thirty-five-year-old man has a son named Gavin, who is now fifteen. But, back before Gavin was born, and when his son was very young, he used to be a heroin addict.
During that time, he lived on the streets for the first few years of his son’s life. Then, by the time Gavin turned five, he amazingly got sober and has remained clean ever since.
Just recently, though, his teenage son actually got caught smoking and drinking alcohol. And understandably, this really upset him.
Now, his son realizes that he is very disappointed in him. Moreover, Gavin knows that he is much too young to be drinking or smoking. But, he still thought it would be a good idea to teach his son a valuable life lesson.
For context, every once in a while, he will go back to the same streets he used to hang out on– walking down the blocks and helping out the people he used to do drugs with in the past.
While there, he always offers the people resources, gives them food, and more.
“My wife does not like this, but she knows it is important to me,” he explained.
So, after finding out what his son had been up to, he decided to bring Gavin with him to meet some of the people on the streets on Boxing Day– which was the day after Christmas.
He essentially made his son watch how the people lived and how they interacted with him. And honestly, he could tell that the whole experience really shook Gavin up.
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“Which was my goal, so he could see what addiction is really like,” he noted.
Although, after they got home, and he told Gavin’s mom about what he had done, she was quite upset with him. In fact, she claimed that he put their son at risk by bringing him into that kind of environment.
But, to be frank, he honestly thought it was really important for Gavin to get out into the real world and see what he had gone through as an addict– moreover, for his son to realize what could happen if he did not “clean his act up” in the future.
Despite his own perspective on the situation, though, Gavin’s mom being upset about the whole thing has also started to make him question his judgment.
So now, he has been left wondering if taking his teenage son out into the streets to teach him a lesson about addiction was the right thing to do or if it was irresponsible of him as a parent.
Do you agree that teaching his son a lesson about the consequences of drug use was necessary? Was taking Gavin to the streets and interacting with current addicts a smart way to do it? Does his wife have a right to be upset about his decision? If you had been in his shoes, would you have done the same thing?
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