These parents raise their children and tell them "you can be anything you want to be". Never teaching them the realities of life. The parents soke their own lives in immortality and confuse these growing teenage minds with "religious fortitude" and the pressure to live up to being "accepted" by God, yet hypocrites to their own pressures. Thus confusing the heck out of these boys and girls. These kids become young adults confused about life. Many times abused .. and mom is oblivious to the abuse. Sex, drugs and being utterly lost about life and God in their mid-teens.. these kids then venture out into life often rushing into the riskiest lifestyles .. and this is when mom adopts that moniker "not my son" and "I have to let him be who he wants to be" yet deep inside saying "if I tell him no, I am gonna loose him" ..only making the situation worse. Take all of this and then allowing a young man like this to go to a foreign country ..and you have the story of Aeryn Gillern.
His disappearance is "the end" result of a lost soul. One look at the guy and you see a smiling face, but underneath it all a young man crying out for understanding in a lost/confused life.