I'm extremely frightened for my granddaughter.
Gabrielle is still young enough
to be put on the right path.
What she needs is guidance to get back on the right path
and away from her immoral mother.
My greatest fear is that my granddaughter
will go into the same business as her mother.
If things don't change quickly,
my granddaughter will go down the tubes
right along with her mother.
Both of them need a wake-up call from Dr. Phil.
You've got one of two choices here.
And, as I see it,
and I'm gonna tell you what they are.
And, I think you really only have one reasonable choice
and that is she needs to be removed from this home
at this point.
Yes.
(audience clapping)
I am prepared to offer
what I think is a very constructive
and positive alternative
in offering to make available to you parents
to send her to a place called Turn-About Ranch.
And--
(audience clapping)
Remember how we said that would be a good thing
whatever it is?
Remember?
Okay.
I contacted our friends
at Turn-About Ranch
and asked them if they could help,
and here's what they had to say.
The mission statement for Turn-About Ranch
is real ranch, real values, and real change.
And, I think why Turn-About Ranch is so effective,
kinda like a three-legged stool,
there's academics, there's therapy,
and then there's the ranch life,
and the ranch life is gonna teach her
lots of great things.
She's gonna have an opportunity
to be able to be on the ranch and learn
in nature there are things that you have to respect
whether you want to or not.
So, she's gonna learn that respect naturally,
in addition to having good staff
that are gonna hold boundaries and expect her
to follow the rules.
Now, in order--
In order for that to work,
you and you must be willing
to work in creating a co-parenting plan while she's gone
and go through parenting training
and family training that's necessary.
So, the people that she comes home to
are different than the people she's leaving from.
And--
We know the folks at Turn-About Ranch
will do great things for Gabrielle,
but if she comes home to the same situation
that she leaves from,
then she's gonna go right back to her old behaviors.
And, this is one alternative that I'm offering you.
The other alternative is that
this is reported to DCFS
simultaneous with us sitting here now,
and your prediction is they'll remove this child
from the home before dark today, right?
Absolutely, yep.
(audience clapping)
And,
she will either be, she will either be placed
with a family member such as the grandmother
who can then make the decision to send her
to Turn-About Ranch,
or she'll go into foster care if you don't want her.
But, there's no way in hell
they're going to allow her to stay parented by you two
until you demonstrate a change
in parenting skills and philosophy.
So, my recommendation is she goes to a
positive, constructive place
and do a reset on her perceptions and values
while you two work very hard while she's gone
to put this family on the right track.
And, in the alternative,
then we just let things take their course with DCFS.
So, tell me what you wanna do?