Here are my answers to these questions. I do, however, question the person asking them. What is your interest in this forum? Are you a survivor, a relative, an activist?
1. Why were you put into these religious juvenile homes?
I ran away from home and my mother sent me there to avoid the state investigating why.
2. Were you given counseling before or during the stay at these homes?
does going to shrinks for years prior and years after count?
3. Did these homes have any positive impacts on your life as an adult who functions as a citizen of the United States?
Not in any way I can think of
4. Did these homes have any negative impacts on your life as an adult who functions as a citizen of the US?
yes, I have serious commitment issues
5. Have you suffered mentally or emotionally because of the kind of treatement found in these extreme religious homes?
Yes
6. Have your prospered mentally or emotionally because of the kind of treatment foudn in these homes?
No, I don't think so
7. Has the experiences you have gone through in these Homes brought you closer to God as some of your parents had hoped for?
Not at all, I came to God many years later on my own
8. Have the experiences you have gone through in these homes caused you to revolt away from the God of the Bible?
For many years it did
9. Has the homes helped you to thrive in the world as a person who can give to thier community or has it left you shortchanged in your ability to interact healthily in the community around you? Meaning have you found yourself handicapped in knowing how to give your time in work in the community to bring social help to it?
Hard to say how much the homes actually affected me, but I share a lot of issues with other survivors
10. What do you say is the number 1 cause that brought you to the homes? i.e. what was the straw that broke the camels back , that opened the door to these places for you in your young life?
Pastor recommendation
11. Was there ever a time during your stay in the homes that you were not given fair medical treatment for any illness or physical problem?
I never really had a health problem, but saw it happen several times with other girls.
12. Was there ever a time in your stay that you were given medical treatment without proper medical documentation of it? or , Given prescriptive medications without proper prescription by a Safe Medical doctor?
No, medication was avoided.