Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
so when is it ok to force your children to do what the paren
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--- Quote --- The premise behind these behavior programs is that the child is broken. I find it ironic that parents with the most to offer their children in the way of education, culture, and experience are being taken by these programs that in turn inflict deep, emotional injury to their children.
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Maybe I'm too "lightweight" on this philosophical thread. But we need to recognize the reason that many (or most) of these kids are being sent to WWASPS is not because the parents really are out of options and think that the promises of glossy marketing will HELP their children. My experience (personal as well as talking with literally a hundred or more survivor kids) is that being sent away is: 1) a punishment for disrupting the parents' life, 2) to remove the kid from the parents' immediate environment, a "breather" for parents, so-to-speak, and - BIG REASON HERE - at the request/insistence of a new step-mother or step-father who has found a solution to having a new spouse without the "under-age baggage". There is a disportionate number of kids coming from newly-remarried homes...not just divorced homes, but *recently* remarried homes. I have been told that 20% of the kids are adopted (I think this was in Tranquility Bay Jay Kay's statements to the London Guardian). Hmmm...adoptions don't usually come with money-back guarantees, but WWASPS will offer to "fine tune" that cute little bundle you bought in Korea or Guatemala or Russia, and who unfortunately turned out to be a normal American teenager.
There will be a howling from WWASPS parents in response to such an idea, but then they have a pressing desperate need for validation for what they've done..."for his own good" because otherwise "the kid would be dead or in jail". This is reinforced in the cult behavior of the support groups, lock-step thinking with no allowance for "out of the box" ideas, secret language, secret seminars, secret code words to hide from the rest of the world that one has given over total control of a child...communication, discipline, intellect and independent thought..to people with no ability except their own proclamations and the passionate promotion by parents with a similar need for validation.
These places are not boarding schools (a somewhat posh idea that plays well with the folks back home). No parent will tell the left-behind friends, neighbors, clergy, teachers, or even law enforcement that they shipped their kids off with carte blanche to a group without credentials who promise to return a "fixed kid" if given enough time and money, if only parents allow the kid to be apart from the rest of the world as long as the cashier says it is necessary.
So much information is available on the Internet about WWASPS...mostly negative, from forums like this, to the record of facilities' forced closures, to requests for Congressional investigation, to really weird and parrot-like forum ravings from WWASPS parents about benefits. What on earth would persuade a parent to ignore all this information, and send their kid off to a Stranger With a Bad Reputation? As Anon said eloquently...when your group thinks it's OK, but the rest of the world says it's not, how can you ignore that? I've heard several times about parents setting up a code word with their kid, so that kid can pass it back to the parent if things are really bad. Jesus!!!! Why send him if you think it's that bad? The only reason I can imagine is...well, see #1, #2, and #3 above.
Anonymous:
It's all so pathetic, hauling kids off in the middle of the night (while Mom cries softly in the background and Dad says "we're doing this because we love you, son" or "trust me, son, someday you'll thank us for doing this". Where do these parents get off blaming their kids for their bad parenting skills? Worse yet, what kind of a parent spends $40-60k to turn their teenager into a human GUMBY (ultra-compliant)?
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Anonymous:
Nobody wants to believe that parents can detach from their child. Well it's easier than you think when parents generally don't know how to attach properly in the first place.
We know we live in a throw away society. We toss relationships aside like yesterdays old bread. As I have said before, we need to take the veils off - say it like it is. Holding on to false beliefs will not get us where we want to be.
What is the most under-valued resource in American society? CHILDREN! Say it like it is- Americans value consumption not people, expecially not young people. The baby-boomers will continue to drain this country, and the world, of all its resources leaving nothing for the children. They will get their drugs, which they will need them to heal their sick bodies from the over- consumption of food and drink and to heal their sick souls from the pain and guilt over their disfunctional lives. Children, on the other hand, will be denied. Does anyone see any of the $100 trillian+ in debt going to our children or their future?
So what can a young person do? I can only think of one thing. Rise above! Unite as a group and rise above the parents who would rather send you away than grow with you. Your future is at stake. Your parents and grandparents are about to take this country to its knees. You can blame them, resent them, and disrespect them, but to get what you need, you must be smarter than they are.
Froderik:
With just a touch of my burning hand
I?m gonna live my life to to destroy your world
Prime directive, exterminate
The whole fuckin? race
Then your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds
And it pumps in death
Prime directive, exterminate
The whole fuckin? place well
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who?d I do this for
Hey, me or you
And all I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who?d I do this for
Hey, me or you
Anonymous:
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