HELP DOES NOT INCLUDE COERCION, HUMILIATION, TORTURE AND ABUSE!!!!![/color]
Nowhere, We hear you loud and clear and I dont think you will get an argument from anyone here on that statement, even if the torture, humiliation and abuse is self inflicted, it is the parents responsibility to see the child gets help or they could go to jail. You cant just sit back and watch a child suffer and go down hill without getting them help, whether they want it or not.
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Do you know anything about Wraparound treatment, Who? Community based treatment? There are other treatment options for extremely troubled kids that don't subject them to the trauma of being yanked from their homes and forced into the "tough love" tactics of strangers. Who, even you should realize that if a kid is "out of control" and "acting out", there's probably a problem in the family dynamic.. Too many parents (like you) won't accept any blame for the problems and ship their kids off to be "fixed". It's possible the child will thrive in the program, simply because he/she is out of the troubled home. What happens when the kid returns and the parents are still fucked-up as ever?
I know some programs advertise they work with the entire family, Peninsula Village claims to "Restore Families and Mend Young Lives". Bullshit, fraudulent advertising there. If the parents of a patient are divorced, the parent paying for the program dictates treatment. My wife asked questions about the program and angered the clinical director, who couldn't answer the questions. He thought questioning any aspect of the program interfered with the therapeutic process. Shortly afterward, my wife photographed her daughter's "restraint" (five fat broads piled on a teenager), and she was denied contact with her daughter for
six months, while dad upheld the ban and went to work "Mom bashing" during his sessions with his daughter, with the therapist's tacit approval.
The reality of programs is nothing like our reality, huh? Five women pile on a teenager and pin her face down, one on each limb, one sitting on her back, and the girl is screaming she can't breathe. If that happened on the street, those obese hags would have been arrested. Also, imagine what my wife was experiencing: her daughter is screaming she can't breathe with all those people on her, counselors nearby are actually laughing. The staff is lucky my wife only had a camera in her car - I don't think any jury would have convicted her for emptying a clip into the attackers.
Also, allowing dad to dictate the treatment and uphold the "mom ban" so he can slander and insult his daughter's mother is abhorrent, but perfectly legal in the program. In the real world, that's called parental alienation and ol' dad would have been knocked down a few notches by The Man.
Parents - take a good look at yourselves before you turn your kids over to the tender mercies of strangers who view your kid as a "thing" to be processed and run through the mill for money. You're really doing your kids a disservice by not taking a hard look at yourselves before calling that escort service.
