Psy wrote:
Ya know... Not all schools are that bad, it doesn't have to be Auschwitz to be a bad place. Yeah some places are horrific. And you apparently are too arrogant to admit it could happen here. You've seen the abuse I described in Romania first hand. You've seen the street kids. I've seen them beaten publicly and others just go about thier business. You have the audacity to deny it happened at all in Western fucking Samoa... Where kids are used as cannon-fodder in the army?!?! This is just human nature buddy, and it's sick. It happens everywhere given a chance.
Yes, it does, and it is sad. I have witnessed it first hand. I have visited orphanages in Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan. Worked with the kids first hand and documented the conditions there. I am sure the list that is described has happened somewhere because I have seen the potential of what one human being can do to another and how children can be perceived as a nuisance or embarrassment especially if they are handicapped and are typically hidden away. I have seen first hand that orphans who need minor surgery to correct club feet or cp etc. are not performed and since there are no orphanages for handicap children they place these children in adult mental institutions (horrible places) where they are slowly destroyed and assimilated. You rarely see any handicapped people in these countries, this is why, they become mentally ill.
You can get pissed and outraged all you want, you haven’t seen the full capacity of what one human can do to another for the sheer enjoyment of it or because they are threatened or consumed with hate. But to take these isolated incidences and try to compare them to what goes on in wilderness or TBS’s schools today is a farce. Do you really expect parents to believe their kids are going to be duct taped and thrown in the ocean if they send them to SUWS of the Carolinas? Do you think they are marched and never fed? Forced to consume other people body fluids at ASR? This how information is disseminated here. If you can find something horrible that has happened to a child somewhere in the world you can apply this to all programs freely and say “see this happens if you send you children away”.
I understand that not all kids do well in the industry, as my daughter did. But I also don’t paint the entire industry based on my one experience. I recognize places can exist like straight and paradise cove but what many people here can’t see is that there are places which are not like this and benefit children and the approach taken and attempt to do this I find very humorous, sometimes.
The Russian government announced this week that they are closing their doors to adoptions in their country because of allegations of abuse here in the united states,Canada and other countries. Of the 15,000 children adopted each year from Russia a handful have been abused and/or died so they are closing their doors. They have an estimated 250,000 children in orphanages in conditions you would not even believe…isolation doesn’t mean they only get a 20 minute phone call each week….. a 10 mile hike in the woods with food and a place to rest at the end of the day would be paradise. The minute they closed their doors an estimated 300 children a day will “age out” and will never become available for adoption and move into the streets to live a life of prostitution and crime. Guatemala has already done this, Romania wont even discuss their children let alone allow anyone to help them anymore. Moldova is starting to pull their shade down as well as many other former Soviet countries. Many (not all) orphanage directors in Kazakhstan believe the kids destiny is sealed at birth and don’t believe in adoption…”Why would anyone want to raise someone else’s child?” is an often heard reply from officials…Have you ever seen a child start shaking and vomiting, dig their nails into you because their “Caretaker entered the room?” or an entire wing filled with 40 children awake in their cages with not one of them crying because they have learned way too early that it brings no attention their way……..anyway sorry to ramble.
