The same type of attitude some adults on here have towards people being abused is, sadly, the same one they have when their kids tell them what's happened. They speak as if whatever the teens have done (having sex, talking back, running away, breaking a program rule) is some sort of justification for using torture as a form of delayed and extended punishment. You're the same types who would've made good Nazis or joined in on the Abu Ghraib abuse.
I was at a program where we stood demerits, facing the wall without moving or talking, no radio or background noise permitted, for 25 minute increments each. About half the facility would get an average of 2-3 daily for minor offenses. Once we asked the staff to stand just one demerit, just once, to see what it was like. Only one woman took us up on the offer, she couldn't make it through, she cried, and she actually began to talk to us for the more minor offenses (stray hair stuck in shower drain) rather than give out demerits every time a minor infraction occurred.
As an adult, I hope to instill compassion and forgiveness in my own children. Let he who is perfect cast the first stone.
