Actually, I'm all for outing parents who won't listen to reason. They need to be punished to serve as a warning to other idiot parents.
Do you really think a single parent is going to be deterred just because some other parent was outed? There is no point to it. There is no shame to it. The only outrage at the parents comes from here. It's not an effective deterrent and even if it was it wouldn't be worth the cause in driving others away. Parents do not want to contact people they think are crazy and might out them. They already perceive those who criticize programs as most likely homeless drug addict fuck-ups.
Before you call a parent hopeless remember KarenInDallas. Even after a kid is placed in a program there is still a chance the parents will eventually listen, especially if what they've been told prior to placement lines up with what their kids report. The key, the absolute key, is to get the parents to listen for long enough that they can absorb key information so they can figure things out on their own. You explain "this might happen in the program" and their kid reports the
exact same thing... regardless of how far gone you think parents can go, that sets off alarm bells. That
cannot happen if communication is severed. You don't burn bridges. There is no advantage to it, strategically, ethically, or otherwise.
The timing is what I object to in this case, but that's neither here nor there because Daniel Gauss, the asshole he is, was bound and determined to send his kid to a program long before anyone else got involved. Evidence collected from Morgan's friends show she's been stressing this issue for months. That's months of Daniel Gauss's opinions hardening on the merits of sending his daughter to a program. That's months of Morgan's mother consulting the spirit guides.
Parents should only be outed when it is abundantly clear that they just aren't going to listen.
And that worked wonders for KarenInDallas. All it did was turn her further into a raging opponent to the program. It took dedication, hard work, logic, and persistence to get her to realize the truth about what was going on. It was made infinitely more difficult by the vendetta against her.
Morgan really didn't have a chance in the first place, her fate was signed and sealed.
Don't defend him. PODK came off like a lunatic, and Niles, unfortunately, followed right along. Communication with a parents was severed as a result. Because it's impossible to know now whether the parents could have been convinced not to place, the one chance that girl had was destroyed. Any chance to educate her parents and convince them to remove the kid was similarly demolished.
also, please don't ever make light of anyone being a program survivor or not. Some of the biggest supporters of Morgan at the moment haven't even stepped foot in a program.
Do you honestly feel that somebody who wasn't in a program can truly understand what it was like? I can say cult members might be able to, but other than that, unless you've read for years and years, people just don't get it. I'm not saying I don't appreciate the support, but when you don't know what you're doing, you ask somebody to help rather than blasting off and risking a kid's future and sanity.
The majority of the people who signed onto help that are program survivors are too busy fucking around on fornits and reveling in their victim status. Most of the program survivors involved in the facebook group seem to busy weeping along with some pansy assed liberal agenda to send a god damn email, make a phone call, or to send a fax.
You're right. More people should start fighting but I don't blame those who don't. What else do you expect them to do when they were told for so long they're fated to failure. Yes they're victims. Some are resilient. Some never recover. All we all can do is try.