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The Reids: Family in Crisis

By Mark Jakubik

As coach of the Eagles, Andy Reid has excelled at keeping the lid on, brushing off questions about team controversies with a countenance as stony as Mount Rushmore.That lid grew airtight when it came to problems at home, with Reid bolting from briefings when anyone dared to broach his sons’ legal woes. It therefore fell to a Montgomery County judge last week to publicly reckon with the dynamics of what he deemed “a family in crisis.” In skewering the structure and supervision in the Reids’ Main Line home, Judge Steven T. O’Neill raised the conundrum facing countless other homes in which drug-addicted adult children still live: What is the parents’ responsibility - let alone their ability - to monitor and control their grown children? “You’ve got to take accountability of what goes on in the house,” O’Neill told Reid and his wife, Tammy, in an extraordinary lecture Thursday at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown...continue to full post

Full post as published by Philadelphia Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog on November 05, 2007 (boomark / email).