If I needed to hire an investigator, for the various reasons you would hire one, the most important attribute I would look for is that the investigator is a parent of an alcoholic/addicted child.
Such parents are (OK, I am) expert at picking up the scent of a well-orchestrated lie.
As the reports of Britney Spears shaving her head began to circulate I paid very little attention to the hype surrounding it.
As a single parent of not one but two teenage boys who suffer from addiction, I have been a tad busy. What did capture my attention as the chaos in this beautiful young lady's life escalated was not her shaved head or the nail-biting coverage of her trips to the tattoo parlor.
It was the vehicle that Lynne Spears, Britney's mother, reportedly was driving as it paused outside the gates of Promises, a residential treatment center in Malibu.
I witnessed, as many of us did, what I feel should have been a private moment between mother and daughter.
What the Spears family is coping with is all too familiar to those of us who have children with addictions. We are parenting from the foxhole.
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