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Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2003-12-01 18:18:00, Anonymous wrote:
"As long as parents are not held accountable AND as long as parents are willing to pay the big bucks the programs will never go away. "
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No, you don't get it. No parent ever escapes accountability. None. Not one. Even those who come to their senses and make every honorable effort to patch things up with their kids. They will never, ever, ever errase the harm done to their own children, grandchildren and extended families by this betrayal.
Now, if we can get a good many of them to shake it off in time to file before the statute of limitations expires, we might make some serious legal headway and save their families some heartache. If we can't, then there's really no sense indicting and punishing them. That only feeds the cult martyrdome complex.
What we need to do is get the story out to the relatively sane members of our society so that they understand what really goes on behind euphemisms like "Teen Help" and "Behavior Growth School".
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."--Friedrich Nietzsche
Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse social impact... These young people have jumped the fence and found no cliff.
Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---No, you don't get it.
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No, I do get it. Make parents accountable today and that will be a deterrent for other parents tomorrow.n If they see that they can lose their freedoms based on their bad choices other parents will want proof positive that their child is OK.
Deborah:
I fail to see how you would go about making parents accountable for their bad choices. It seems like a moot arguement.
My guess is that the majority of CPS workers and law enforcement, judges, etc support the private warehousing industry for "troubled" teens, at the parent's expense. They perceive the parent as acting "responsibly".
Who is going to take action against a parent for their "bad choices" except another parent or family member or close friend? And for what specifically? Abuse? You first must prove that abuse is happening. That is no easy matter given the nature of the beast, particularly when the abuse is psychological.
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2003-12-01 19:59:00, Anonymous wrote:
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--- Quote ---No, you don't get it.
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No, I do get it. Make parents accountable today and that will be a deterrent for other parents tomorrow.n If they see that they can lose their freedoms based on their bad choices other parents will want proof positive that their child is OK."
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Make them accountable? You mean by law? That would be like making water run downhill by law. It's redundant. And Deborah's right. State and county juvenile justice and CPS systems send a good many kids to these gulags. They're not about to start holding parents to account for what they do themselves.
Besides, as I said, by putting their kids in these programs, they are already destroying their own family and their tie to the future. Parents who tend to think ahead have already noticed the effects. Parents who don't think ahead aren't going to be deterred. The programs will just spin it as proof of the martyrdome of parents. They already have a firm foundation to build on. It's already the states' fault the kids are so messed up because parents aren't allowed to discipline them.
Going after the parents would further divde fmilies and probably not effect the industry at all. Might even lead to the current cast of The Supremes codifying the parents' right to abuse by proxy.
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
--John Quincy Adams, Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives [July 4, 1821]
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Ginger Warbis ~ Antigen
American drug war P.O.W.
10/80 - 10/82
Straight South (Sarasota, FL)
Anonymity Anonymous
Anonymous:
If you want to shut down the industry, then shut down the demand for it. Hold parents accountable. It is their job as a parent to protect their children from exploitation. The parents are not victims, they are perps, they are playing GOD, judge and jury, with their childrens lives, they are part of the problem.
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