Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Deadly Choices
anon:
[ This Message was edited by: KarenZ on 2003-10-16 20:39 ]
MORSEGLASS:
I BELEIVE THE SAME AS YOU KAREN, IF YOU KNOW YOUR CHILD HAS A SEVERE DRUG PROBLEM, IT IS YOUR RESPONSABILITY, AS A PARENT TO DO SOMETHING, (WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT A WWASP SCHOOL) BUT A DRUG REHAB, THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS THING INVOLING OUR YOUTH!! IM NOT TALKING ABOUT SMOKING A JOINT ONCE.
FaceKhan:
One interesting fact that Mike Males points out is that the reason that auto accidents, suicide and such are major causes of death for teens is because they are not dying of cancer, heart disease, strokes and the like. If you ignore the biggest causes of death in older folks you will see that accidents and suicide account for quite a few deaths among the elderly, the middle aged and the twenty somethings.
In fact he shows that suicide deaths essentially are more likely the older a person is. THat is that young children almost never commit suicide and the rate goes steadily up the older a person is.
One point Males makes often in his books is that a person 35-55 (the parents of teenagers) is several times more likely to die of a drug overdose based on actual death statisics in California (they supposedly keep the most accurate stats of any state and divide by race and socioeconomics more precisely).
I highly recomend his books, Framing Youth, The Scapegoat Generation, and his free ebook,
"Kids and Guns:How Politicians, Experts, and the Press Fabricate Fear of Youth"
http://home.earthlink.net/~mmales/contents.htm
[ This Message was edited by: FaceKhan on 2003-07-05 23:30 ]
Anonymous:
For the interesting and very realistic information. Can't speak for anyone else, but I sure got a big laugh from the reference to the BIG BULLSHIT BOARD! Also enjoy and appreciate the posts written by FaceKhan who is equally very intelligent and a courageous defender of the legal and constitutional rights of children.
:wave:
Anonymous:
("This spring he decided to grant me and a photographer unprecedented, exclusive access. If he didn't like the result, 'Hell will freeze over before anyone gets in here again".)
What's the verdict? Is Mr. Kay satisfied he made the right decision when he granted Ms. Aikenhead and the photographer into Tranquility Bay? Enquiring minds want to know!!
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