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dishdutyfugitive:
"I cannot imagine a child with any reasonable level of intelligence seeing their parents' decision as anything other than an act of selfishness. But I would love to hear feedback from the children who have been sent to such places."
I see it for what it is.
CEDU intentionally sold us a polished turd. They intentionally took advantage of us for 2 reasons. Profit and the ego boost it gave them.
Why did my parents buy it? They were desperate and incompetent parents scrambling to address a monumental problem with only seconds left on the clock.
Why did I buy it? My other option was Provo (a lockdown facility). I had no criminal record whatsoever so Provo obviously scared the shit out of a 16 year old.
Anonymous:
--- Quote from: "TheWho" ---There was a study done a decade or so ago where they talked to families who needed to place their children in the children’s ward at Children’s hospital in Boston (I’ll probably get hammered here because I don’t have a link). The children were there for a variety of reasons from cancer to liver failure to thyroid disease, but the one thing they had in common is they didn’t want to be there. Did the families feel guilty? Yes, Responsible? Of course. There were people who asked the parents how they slept at night having their children in the hospital and questioning whether it was the right decision. Others questioned why they decided to have kids knowing they had a history of cancer in their family and subjecting their own kids to suffering and death.
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OMG. "Dysfunctional" behavior is hardly the same thing as a dysfunctional liver. The analogy is inapplicable.
And no link because... there never was such a study. Who could have been so callous and stupid? What was the point? To see if parents agonize over the circumstances of their kids' illness, and thereby make those parents agonize even more? Anyway, Children's Hospital/Boston would never have allowed it.
Anonymous:
A physically ill child belongs in a hospital, where there are real cures based on scientific research.
Therapeutic boarding schools have not been shown to have any efficacy.
Unlike therapeutic boarding schools, a hospital would never ban a parent from visiting.
The Who, you are clueless and quite self-righteous!!!
TheWho:
--- Quote ---OMG. "Dysfunctional" behavior is hardly the same thing as a dysfunctional liver. The analogy is inapplicable.
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You must be thinking of a different post. I never mentioned dysfunctional behavior.
--- Quote ---And no link because... there never was such a study. Who could have been so callous and stupid? What was the point? To see if parents agonize over the circumstances of their kids' illness, and thereby make those parents agonize even more? Anyway, Children's Hospital/Boston would never have allowed it.
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I knew I would get hammered making a bases without a link, but there was a study, and yes almost all the kids did not want to be in the hospital. The vast majority of them would rather be home with their families.
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Ursus:
--- Quote from: "TheWho" ---There was a study done a decade or so ago where they talked to families who needed to place their children in the children’s ward at Children’s hospital in Boston (I’ll probably get hammered here because I don’t have a link). The children were there for a variety of reasons from cancer to liver failure to thyroid disease...
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Ummm... "the children's ward" in a CHILDREN'S hospital? I am guessing that this hospital was not named after a generous benefactor with the surname of "Children," but is, in fact, dedicated to the health and medical concerns of children more or less exclusively. Why would there be a special ward for them within such a place?
In fact, if you google "Children's Hospital Boston," you get THIS place. Quoting from their "About us" page:
--- Quote ---Child Patient Care
Children's Hospital Boston is a 397-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age. (Our Advanced Fetal Care Center can begin interventions at 15 weeks gestation, and in some situations, we treat adults.)
Children's records approximately 22,600 inpatient admissions each year, and our 204 specialized clinical programs care for more than 527,500 patients annually. Additionally, the hospital performs 23,000 surgical procedures and 170,000 radiological examinations every year...
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Recognition
Children's Hospital Boston has been listed as the top pediatric hospital in the country for heart and heart surgery, according to U.S.News & World Report's "America's Best Children's Hospitals" issue, dated June 9. It was also named the nation's top hospital for care of digestive disorders, while receiving second place honors in cancer care and neurology and neurosurgery.
Since the magazine began ranking hospitals 19 years ago, Children's has always been ranked as one of the top two pediatric hospitals in the country. This year, Children's is ranked second nationally and remains the number one pediatric hospital in New England...
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Is this the hospital you were referring to?
I imagine that if you really did have a daughter, and and really did reside in the Boston metropolitan area, you would have had occasion during the 18 years of her "childhood" to visit this place at least a few times.
In fact, according to their "Locations" page, there are 3-4 satellite Children's Hospitals, one of which is in Waltham, Massachusetts, which would appear - according to their map - to be the town directly north of Newton, where you claim to currently reside.
One would think you knew a bit more about the place than to describe a study done of "the children's ward" in one of the largest and most prestigious children's hospitals in the country, let alone one located a few miles from your doorstep.
Speaking of that "study" (which sounds suspiciously like it was commissioned by some fundamentalist religious sect opposed to all medical procedures), with all due respect, I must concur with Little Red Roaster and concernedone in failing to see the relevance of its mention in a discussion about therapeutic boarding schools.
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