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The Troubled Teen Industry / Parent-Friendly Anti-Program Sites?
« on: April 11, 2007, 07:43:28 AM »
This place definitely warns people about the dangers of sending their kids away, but it's also pretty full of stuff that would turn off a parent to the message--talk about drugs, unfiltered profanity, et cetera. If you've been to a program, you know it's just people detoxing, but if you're a desperate parent, you could just think, "It's a bunch of rebellious kids trying to keep us from straightening them out."
Anyway, I'm wondering if there are some more parent-friendly sites which stress the welfare of kids in programs, to which I could send parents who are considering such things. I've come upon such parents three times (though one was my own mother, wanting to send my sister away), and managed to prevent them from sending their children to "boot camp" residential places. But every time, I had a hard time making them believe that such things actually happened... I had to resort to other tactics. With my mom, I pointed out that my sister would be required to have her vaccinations (my mom doesn't believe in vaccines)... With another parent, I pointed out that something the school taught was something the parent didn't believe... with a third, I just stressed that the parent would lose control of the child, and showed them that the school would be making a lot of decisions without consulting them.
It's not like I could prevent anybody from sending a kid away if they were hell-bent to do it; but I think some trustworthy sites documenting abuse would be useful.
Got links?
Anyway, I'm wondering if there are some more parent-friendly sites which stress the welfare of kids in programs, to which I could send parents who are considering such things. I've come upon such parents three times (though one was my own mother, wanting to send my sister away), and managed to prevent them from sending their children to "boot camp" residential places. But every time, I had a hard time making them believe that such things actually happened... I had to resort to other tactics. With my mom, I pointed out that my sister would be required to have her vaccinations (my mom doesn't believe in vaccines)... With another parent, I pointed out that something the school taught was something the parent didn't believe... with a third, I just stressed that the parent would lose control of the child, and showed them that the school would be making a lot of decisions without consulting them.
It's not like I could prevent anybody from sending a kid away if they were hell-bent to do it; but I think some trustworthy sites documenting abuse would be useful.
Got links?