To ANY parent with a child in a program or is thinking of doing so, PLEASE do not put them in there, and PLEASE pull them out! LISTEN TO YOUR CHILDREN!
Being tricked or kidnapped into being locked in a place against their will where they can't even tell their parents what is going on and being trapped in a painful coercive environment is not going to be therapeutic, its going to make them suffer, feel pain, have a lot of their NEEDS as a child or teenager NOT met, and make them be seperated from you and the world. Being terrified, being VERY painfully 'restrained' (tied up or wrestled down by several people) and made to panic and suffer pain and almost suffocate for hours, the psychological torture a lot of them employ, the complete and total lack of fun, freedom, or privacy, and total lack of control of their lives is not going to make them grow up, but it is almost guaranteed to make them very obedient little dolls that are perfectly happy on the outside for you with their 97% satisfaction rate, and be broken shells on the inside and suffer for years to come.
At that age you need to get out and have FUN AND ENJOY LIFE, and go and do things to grow independant and mature, not be brainwashed and turned into a marionette for their parents to enjoy. When adulthood comes you HAVE to be yourself and do for yourself not just be a damn obedient doll.
To everyone knocking people who speak out against it... what do we have to GAIN by doing this except trying to save a few kids from abuse? We don't want money or fame, we just want kids to grow up happily and healthily and not be tortured and abused.
I started a petition/investigation request of sorts at
http://www.askquestions.org/details.php?id=209ANYONE with a kid in a program or even THINKING about it, or who knows someone with a kid in one or thinking of it, I urge you to look there. Look at what they found out after I tipped them off. Look at the comments. Email the editor. Why would all of these victims over the past 20 years all say the SAME KIND OF ABUSE HAPPENS, when they are all totally remote and unrelated except they were in the SAME KIND OF PROGRAM? Think about it. They want money. We just want kids to not be abused by lying money-grabbing monsters.
Please don't believe their pretty words and give them your money and your child. Life is too short and hard as it is for them to lose out on the best years of their lives to some 'program' and come out a tortured shell.
Check my profile. contact me. I could tell you lots of stories or point you to people who have actually put their kids in a program or been in one.
They want your child, your money, and total control over both. We want you to keep both. Think about that.