Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: home-based offices as safety risk to children

[Ayala Sherbow (asherbow]

Hi Shelley -

While I have no direct cohousing experience in terms of your question, I
just wanted to question folks' assumption that somehow the clients of
therapists are inherently more threatening to the children of the community.
I think that is a dangerous and errouneous assumption.  Unless the therapist
is a psychiatrist working with people dealing with severe mental illnesses
[i.e schizophrenia] or a therapists working with people with a history of
criminal behaviors -- I think this fear is unwarranted.  And frankly --
professionals working with those kinds of clients almost never work with
them out of their own homes!  Many fine, upstanding, reliable, sane folk see
talk-therapists for personal growth and assistance dealing with more
run-of-the mill life challenges.

Ayala Sherbow
Member
Proximity Cohousing.