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ABC Brat Camp
The Liger:
Liger, same thing was true of Straight. I never knew there were so many adopted kids till I went there. I don't really understand why, except maybe the Christmas puppy syndrome; it takes the same mentality to ship a kid off like this as it does to purchase one in the first place. Also, oddly, an awful lot of girls w/ scoliosis. I can remember 3 or 4 offhand out of, what, a couple hundred who went through during that two years. No clue as to why that might be.
hurleygurley:
I've been collecting as much hard data on all the program issues. I'm wondering how you found out there was an increase in Redcliffe enrollment after British airing. I'd like to track the impact of these shows and the book by Dave Marcus. I'm still horrified by ongoing impact of that book.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-07-21 15:25:00, Anonymous wrote:
Guess again Anon. Brat Camp has done more to hurt the image of wilderness therapy than any aging hippie or drug infested permissive parent (as you call them) could ever do.
Why?
Because it has opened Pandora's Box.
Millions of people are now seeing what happens to the children of "troubled" parents. They end up on television being exploited by their own parents and an industry that thrives on treating adolescence as an epidemic.
Barbe
TAUSA
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I wish I could share your optimism. This show doesn't have its own forum but the response on the ABC Family message board for the original Brat Camp at RedCliff Ascent was overwhelmingly supportive. There were a few negative posts but even when people who had actually been there told their stories people just said they were lying and refused to believe that a TV company would sink to such depths.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-07-22 00:04:00, hurleygurley wrote:
"I've been collecting as much hard data on all the program issues. I'm wondering how you found out there was an increase in Redcliffe enrollment after British airing. I'd like to track the impact of these shows and the book by Dave Marcus. I'm still horrified by ongoing impact of that book."
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A parent on the ABC Brat Camp forum said she tried to get her child into RedCliff Ascent but couldn't due to a six-month waiting list because the show had just been aired in Britain. I am not sure if the post is still there. They seem to be deleted after a while.
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---I'm still horrified by ongoing impact of that book
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Why not write a review on Amazon giving an alternative point of view? Straight survivors have done it with Miller Newton's books. And why stop at Amazon? Other people sell books online too, like Barnes and Noble.
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