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Interesting article on the lost irish

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Antigen:
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/colum ... 02937.html

I want to know more about this!

Oscar:
We do acutally have links about this subject on the Ireland category page on Fornits Wiki

One of them is for the Justice for Magdalenes webpage.

Wikipedia does also have a page about the Magdalene asylum

The ironic part is that the system of putting at-risk teenage girls into these horrible places was not stopped because people wanted to help the girls. The system broke down because someone invented the Washing machine and made it so cheap that every household could have one. The work of the girls was no longer needed and the girls were released. Once they were out they grouped and led the authorities to graves of girls who have died in the system. Only then it became a scandal.

The last asylum closed down in 1993 and it was during the closure of this place 155 unmarked graves were discovered.

Sinéad O'Connor is one of the girls who have been confined to these asylums.

It seems that every country has their own dark chapter when it comes to handling at-risk teens. Here in Denmark we also have something to settle. A massive report covering abuse in the system since World War II was released last year. While the politicians have been busy insisting that it stopped in 1976, we know better and we are coming for them.

Reddit TroubledTeens:
Antigen - this is a great find. I wish the US had a fund like this to help survivors. Very inspirational that something like this is being done.

Oscar - I'm becoming interested in the history of sending kids away. Like the Native American boarding schools, the 'Stolen Generation' of Aboriginals in Australia, the Swiss 'Contract Children' (Verdingkinder). What's this about the Danes? I thought you guys were perfect, nnnooooooo!

I have a theory that teens have been sent away, oh, since the first unruly one came along. Cain was pretty troubled, eh? What did our ancestors do? Convents, monasteries, military, marriage, indentured slavery, shipworkers...what else? How far back does this 'tradition' go? Does anyone know if there's a thread on fornits about this?

Froderik:
There is a thread  somewhere on the Str8 survivors forum (or another forum) about the American Indian 'schools'...

Xelebes:

--- Quote from: "Froderik" ---There is a thread  somewhere on the Str8 survivors forum (or another forum) about the American Indian 'schools'...
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There is a couple on the Canadian Residential Schools.  Namely the one in the thought reform forum.

Also, these schools appear to be very class based.  The French and American Revolutions, along with the Napoleonic Wars saw to the beginning of theory of legitimised force and the sloow dismantling of the class-based systems, but it has taken a long time for it to really establish for all members of society.

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