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Antigen:
007, I don't think you're entirely wrong. But I don't think it's just a few warped parents, either. I think this is the direction in which our society is moving. And that's terrifying!

You probably have wondered (if you've looked around other forums on this server and noticed, anyway) why some of us are still talking about these stupid programs 10, 20 or even 30 years after the fact. I can't speak for anyone else, but my interest has to do w/ trying to understand how an industry as messed up as this one has found purchase in our culture(s).

I think it fits w/ a trend toward trusting the professionals over our own common sense and customs. And it's everywhere. Women used to give birth at home, with or w/o the help of a doctor. Now, we have doctors offering entirely optional c-sections; taking total charge of your new baby and the new mother even before the baby is born. We don't send our kids to school because we value education. We send them to school because it's illegal not too and, I suspect, a lot of people do it because they have NO idea what to do w/ kids. They and everyone they ever knew were raised by hired strangers from a very young age.

So when these strangers tell you your kid is disordered, most people don't even consider that the professional might be trippin'. They go ahead and drug the kid or send the kid to therapy or whatever they're advised to do. When that only makes matters worse, they move on to the next, more radical 'treatment'.

So when some joker comes along promising the cure for all that ails them, they just do what they've always done; ignore their gut and their own good sense and trust the "professionals".

May the fleas of one thousand llamas infest your armpits
--One ticked off sysadmin
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Antigen:
Damn, no play here at all??? :wink:
May the fleas of one thousand llamas infest your armpits
--One ticked off sysadmin
--- End quote ---

Anonymous:
Think most parents tried the "professional route"and when things didn't get a whole lot better at home that's when things really got fucked up and out of hand. The parents got on the internet, read all the glowing Ed Con bull shit and thought they had found THE ANSWER. For most of these parents, it sounded like "manna from heavean." Then the parents call these brainwashed program parents and hear all this testimony about how the PROGRAM saved NOT ONLY THE KID but the whole damn family!!!!
Can't sign that contract and get that escort service to the house fast enough.
If and when reality sets in, we bring our kids home, and start all over again: TRYING TO DO THE BEST WE CAN WITH OUR KIDS--- and here we all are on fornits trying to figure things out, and usually getting the boop beat out of us.

Antigen:
But why, anon? What do you think of my reasoning on the topic. Don't we trust strangers and hired help way too much w/ our kids? Is it just my glowing memory of days gone by, or is this very much different from the way we used to raise kids?
There is so much in the bible against which every insinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention.
--Helen Keller, American lecturer
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Tha Truth:
**007**
I read your post on the previous page, I really tried to understand where you were coming from...but I'm having a hard time.
OK, in response to your comments aimed at the "stupid, rich parents" of these kids, let me set this straight. My dad works 10-12 hour days as a construction worker - not a plush job. Neither of my parents have drug problems and they certainly do have morals. I have five siblings, 3 of which my parents are helping put through college. My parents were at their wit's end with me. I was acting out, drinking, doing drugs, just being crazy. They didn't want to send me away but they had to if they didn't want me to end up in juvie, which was where I was headed. They were not just sending me to boarding school cause they'd rather not have to deal with the responsibility of having kids...they had no choice. Another thing, the Whitmore was definitely not some ritzy boarding/prep school. It was advertised as a RTC (residential treatment center) emphasizing family values, structured like a family home etc. It sounds perfect for people who want a really good nurturing environment for their troubled child. It was obviously not what it was advertised to be. My parents are still recovering financially from my stay there and I've been home for almost a year! Please withold such strong statements about people and their families.  [ This Message was edited by: Tha Truth on 2005-06-15 19:21 ][ This Message was edited by: Tha Truth on 2005-06-15 19:30 ]

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