Your love is beautiful Jennifer. I admire you and stand with you, here in the UK. My child is now 20, but at 15 was extremely similar to your Alistair (from the description you give). My heart broke reading your description of the truck which terrorised them. I live with similar fears, though the UK isn't quite as bad a place to be as the US at the moment - and our kid is a radically unschooled autodidact too! (Now doing a degree through the Open University - online - and still at home).