It's a ****** feeling and expensive. 2 out of my 3 have the bp. Maybe 12 hospitalizations at least between the 17& 19 yr olds. My credit is ruined, I'm broke, almost jobless & homeless. My bp did not get the attention it needed while addressing theirs, like run over bu an icy jagged snow ball. I'm a better mother with my 11 yr old, experience, and he doesn't do school refusal, destroy my house, break everything, attack us, or threaten to harm himself. He has a speech impediment, and a learning disability but he's got some special resiliency gene that been a life saver. I've also done this single, I worked long hours, no family support, didn't know how to help them or me. Sorry to be a downer, but it's my current reality I'm still in the hell and it sucks.

Of course it's possible to be a great bp parent to a bp child, anything is possible. There are also more than can count orphan children who need homes. But maybe we'd be unallowed since we have the bp...