Better yet, why not just get the damn documentary released in the U.S.?
Personally, I think the documentary raises disturbing questions about the kind of parents that send their kids to these torture centers. Ignorance of your kid's treatment only goes so far. How many of these parents took their kid out of a WWASPS program only to replace them in another abusive program?
Educate politicans is fine. But how do you regulate bad parents?
Anybody know?
I saw the hr long version. I dont think it asks any questions about why ppl send their kids to such schools. I recognise that you can only do so much in 1 doco but i wondered a lot of things about the adults interviewed.
I did not know till later, for instance that the blonde lady was laurie Berg who was not a parent but a good samariton who took a kid in. I also wondered where steven Friedrickson's father was for his really long incarceration as it was his mum and stepfather who sent him away. I had assumed there may have been some sort of custody dispute.
The only mother who was extensively interviewed about this was Layne Brown's mum and given what she thought he was going to and the fact that hinton was a family friend, i could see her reasoning. I dont think she came across as an especially bad parent.
i would have been curious to see them interview a few of the parents who believed wholeheartedly in wwasp. This may have given greater insight