Another point is that we can see a big improvement from the days of programs like straight. Kids communication was restricted and letters like this, talking about abuse within the program, could never get out. So we can see that change has definitely taken place in the area of communication with family members.
Wrong. Again. Letters did eventually get to some of the parents, but just as Thomas said, they had been "pre-warned" to ignore the allegations of abuse and to re-enforce to the child that they were not going to be 'pulled', no matter what.
I have read here that, in many programs, if you wrote anything negative about the program they would tear the letter up and made you rewrite it. The OP shows this not to be true and the conduit of communication is wide open and child can say whatever they like to their parents.
They're geared to work in basically the same way.....to keep the truth from getting to the parents. Once you "earn" the right to either speak or write to your parents, conversations are monitored. Some programs handle it a
little bit differently, but it's all with the same result. Even if letter
do get thru, they "pre-warn" parents not to believe
any abuse allegations. Whether it's done by not letting the letter actually go thru at all, or conditioning the parents to not believe what their kids are telling them, the result is the same. The parents do not know (or are in denial) that their kids are being abused. The parents do not know what really happens to their kids while they're under the "care" and control of programs.
You can spin it all you like, but that's the fact Jack.