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An open discussion about the troubled parent industry

This month's punk of the month (Hereafter referred to as POTM) fought off fierce competition from Ken Kay and Narvin Lichfield to win this coveted trophy, sadly the judges plumped for Santa as he has the creepiest smile.
Better luck next time gentlemen.

So I was watching Wimbledon today and this got me thinking about the teen-help industry, as most things do. About thirty five seconds into my bout of obsessive navel gazing I found myself pondering the following issue...

The teen help industry is riddled with abuse cases and neglect etc. These events get given a lot of very emotive coverage and people spend a lot of time asking themselves how these things could possibly be allowed to happen in America. Then we get the calls from various quarters for regulations etc.
All of these children are to be mourned and not forgotten about but I wonder if the amount of attention they get deflects people away from the real issue.
By continually focussing on issues of process and procedure we never get around to examining the root concept of the Teen help industry which is the assumption that it is ethically acceptable or even desirable to take a healthy human being, destroy his/her personality and rebuild him from the ground up.

Discuss...and play nice TSW

It is interesting to note that while the Teenhelp industry is growing and fear of youth is at an all time high, get tough measures, curfews and extreme punitive sanctions are being applied to youth all over the United STates and the media backlash is growing stronger, against this backdrop we have the truth of the modern teenager as the most passive, non violent, law abiding generation since records began. In the same period that saw violent crime double across the United States, juveile crome dropped thirty eight percent (source DoJ/ CJCJ). Drug abuse my juveniles is as low as it has ever been while drug related deaths and hospital admissions for people aged 35-50 are at an all time high. Pregnancies involving two teenage partners have declined while pregnancies involving a teen mother and adult father have risen by a third (source CJCJ)
Why, when every measure we have shows modern children are the best behaved we have ever had to we fear out children so much?

It strikes me that there is an awful lot of information out there on the various staff members of the WWASPS. however, it seems very difficult to collate and verify. What do people think about the idea of putting together a central collection of data on this topic so we can watch the movement of people inside wwasps and also learn to identify people like Wayne Winder...

He's not the only convicted child abuser working for WWASPS, who else can we get.

The fight against the Behvaiour modification industry has been going on for thirty years or more with little to show for it.
The damage that these places do is well known, there in massive amounts of information available for the casual browser, let alone the concerned parent. The number of authoritative academic articles that condemn these places continues to grow apace, we have prime time TV coverage and the attention of the main stream media.
So the public have been informed. They know the truth (and I don't by the 'I didn't know' excuse for a second.)
Then we look to the law. There is no pending legislation that covers this topic except the Miller act, unfortunately that's been waylaid in the comittee for Africa and international human rights where it will languish until it dies.
The attorney general refuses to investigate, Bush enacts legislation to make matters worse.

So we have the situation, the public knows the truth, the government knows the truth and for some strange reason  no one seems to care. The industry is growing by 25 percent a year and shows no sign of slowing, WWASPS are opening up new academies and signing up more children and this year their after tax profits will exceed ninety two million dollars.

We are losing laides and gentlemen, the situation is getting worse and we're running out of ideas.
What do we try now?

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