Taking a step away for a moment. I live in south OC and just want to add a couple of things that may NOT be relevant to Bryce, but may, perhaps, give a sense of some issues teens MIGHT have living here.
This is an overwhelmingly middle class and higher area. It's jokingly said that south of Anaheim and Santa Ana is the Orange Curtain, i.e where the ideal, money-based lifestyle is. Of course that is a massive generalization, but has some elements of truth.
It is also *AGAIN, GENERALIZING* a socially conservative, religious demographic.
Pastor Rick Warren's son recently committed suicide. It came as a tremendous shock to many in my local community, and to his credit RW did say mental illness was hushed up and should be discussed more, but *RUMOR* suggested there was another factor in play.
With that said, the high school drug of choice here is meth or heroin. I, personally, know of a graduating class in the last 5 years that has lost - to overdose - 7 young men. (At different times, and I'm not naming the school, but it is in an affluent area.) My neighbor's son has destroyed his brain with meth. He is now living next door, on parole, and collecting cans to recycle for a living. He is also bi polar, brought on by drug use.
There is a real, and very dangerous, drug problem in south OC.
Now, having said all that. IMO IMO IMO and as a total generalization: if a young man from around here had found himself in over his head with narcotics, he would be so very, very torn as to how to tell his parents. Expectations here are high. Academically and career-wise.
Or, IMO IMO a young man was questioning his sexuality, he would also be torn. Especially if his family basis was one of the rather conservative churches that dominate around here. SOC was/is - judging by the posters on many of my neighbors lawns - Prop 8 friendly on the whole.
Please take this as an overview by a fairly liberal outsider who has lived here for 10 years and is not religious, and not made of $, but lives here non-the-less.
I'm trying so hard not to violate TOS, but I hope I have posted a couple of elements to consider in any OC case.
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