Hello everyone,

My name is Rebecca McElroy, I am 13 years old, and I am a child of God. :]

I am writing today on behalf of my brother Trevor. He is mentally ill, and suffers from a disorder which causes him to have extreme personality changes. Typically, he behaves like a disobedient child, and won’t eat anything other than candy. He will often act out by drawing graphic pictures on our living room walls, depicting violent sexual acts. Sometimes he seems nearly normal, and is very nice to everyone, but others he hates everyone in our family. He even tried to kill my parents with a shovel on one occasion.

He is twenty-six years of age, and has been living on the streets as a part-time drug dealer, and God knows what else, since my father kicked him out when he was 16, after he found out Trevor was a homosexual. (My father says he ran away. Trevor says he was kicked out. I’m not sure which is true.)

He did not even keep in contact with my parents over this period of time. Last year, we finally located him, and persuaded him come back and live with us. Over the last 12 months, things have been smooth for the most part, though he has ran away several times, usually calling my father a few days later to come pick him up from some random location. (the most recent being the local Toys’R’Us parking lot.) We do know he still uses drugs, and often has his homeless friends sneak in and spend the night and eat all our food.

Anyway, my reason for writing is because my parents want to have him institutionalized, and hope to completely wash their hands of him. But I disagree with their decision. Doesn’t God want us to love everyone, no matter who they are, or what they have done? Or are my parents right in their decision to disown him?

I am very confused, and in desperate need of advice and prayer. Someone help, please…