A friend of friends is in a program where she cannot send or receive mail to anyone except her mother and stepfather (who probably *do* need therapy). Naturally, they have a vested interest in believing they are doing "the right thing" by incarcerating a daughter who the stepfather insists must "love him."---regardless of whether she *does* or not. And the mother has been convinced, incorrectly, that the girl is a pathological liar. The wide variety of people who know the girl *well* all say that she is *not* apt to tell lies.
I've known at least four pathological liars, well, in my lifetime. It's not the kind of thing you can miss on reasonably close acquaintance.
The mother is...eccentric.
The program in question is not WASPS. Does WASPS let the kids freely write *private* letters to their friends and freely receive *private* letters from them? Somehow I doubt it---but if they do, then that's *one* thing that is not wrong with them.
It's "safe" to let the kids correspond with parents if you've propagandized the parents to believe *everything* *every* kid there says is a lie. Whenever anyone tells me that *everything* *everyone* else says bad about them is a lie and that *all* the people they interact with tell bad lies about them----I know pretty quickly who the real liar is.
Even prison inmates and basic trainees in the army, and almost all inpatients in mental hospitals, are allowed to freely correspond with anyone they please.
Julie
