I first of all want to say a huge THANK YOU for your website, and I am glad I came upon it. I am a divorced mom of 3 kids. Love to ride and appreciate everything there is about the "biker" lifestyle. I wanted to let you know that just recently (about 5 months ago) I became a B.I.T.C.H in my own right. I have a 15 year old son that has been pushed through the school system in Texas. His teachers and other adults deemed him a "delinquent" and did not want to deal with him. They always sent him to alternative school and suspended to stay home with me, so naturally I had to quit jobs many times to provide supervision for him. I always knew in my heart that there was something more to him just getting into trouble and acting the way he did. The state wanted him to be in "juvenile" detention and so called friends of mine said that he needed a good ass kicking, but I knew that wasn't what he needed. My son has that biggest heart I have ever seen on a teenage boy. He never miss treated me or his brother and sister. He was just misunderstood in the world. In October of this year - I took him to a psychiatrist and he was diagnosed with severe Bi-Polar (both manic and depressive). He was also diagnosed with severe anxiety and suffered from panic attacks. He has been on medication now for a little over3 months and there is a HUGE change in the way he thinks and the way he smiles and just all around. The school however did not want to work with me on regulating his medication and they suspended him again - so I took action! I wanted to them to understand what was happening with him, but they refused to see that "mental illness" as an "excuse" for his behavior. I hired a lawyer to represent my son and myself to fight the school and we won! I had my son placed on "home bound" until the end of the academic school year. I also made the school pay for teachers to come to my house to tutor my son so he can get his education. I just want to let every women out there, young and old that we as women do have the power to fight and to be a babe in total control of herself. It has been a rough 4 years with my son, but I kept hanging in there and never gave up. When I came across your web site I was so ex static, because I am one of those women! I will no longer stand by and accept the rules that someone else has laid down as "law" when I know in my heart that it's not right. Thanks again and God bless.

Lisa in Texas