I believe it. It crosses denominations - Protestant or Catholic, Morman fundamentalists and even some Amish groups and ones I’m unaware of. They take sound ideas and twist them to suit their own distortrd ideas and delusions..and the children suffer mightily. Look at the sick Duggar clan.
Children do need discipline, AND love. Without both, they’re adrift and confused.
I’m convinced a lot of parents don’t know how to be parents anymore. Don’t believe me? Go into any Wal mart and look at parents looking at their smartphone while the baby in their cart is wailing for attention and they just ignore the kid. What kind of message does that send? I’m watching this and thinking “Lady do you not see your baby needs you??”
These schools? There is a lot of reasons kids are sent there they are not all “bad” kids like you are thinking. Some are “troubled” as in mentally ill. They have troubled home lives. A lot are adopted kids like
I said before. Adopted from outside the United States. Parents “re home” them after not being able to deal with them.
Remember that woman a few years back from Tennessee? She sent the kid on a one way ticket back to Russia? Well other parents just send their kids to these schools until they are 18 and are done with them.
A lot of the kids in these schools are what you call “Throw away kids”.
Here is a youtuber who interviews survivors of these schools A lot of them are from Agape but there are others.
https://www.youtube.com/@TheHammerPodcast
this podcast? She was a staff member and a parent of a child at one of these schools. One called Masters Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AH0f2tT95k&list=PLc3O8TfilUTD_1cvHfbSVl0NhNQGe7br_
here is ex staff from Agape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBXsm0k1Dug&list=PLc3O8TfilUTBZq8qTDWiSY8yaEesfrEnE&index=2&t=894s
I want to warn you all these stories can be bad.