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Opinion: The Troubled Teen Industry: Legal Kidnapping Disguised as Treatment
HerCampus.com ^ | December 23, 2022 | Sana Mamtaney

Posted on 12/26/2022 10:31:50 AM PST by Morgana

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You all were wondering about that school in Utah? Diamond Ranch Academy were a girl died just before Christmas? Well it's this kind of place.
1 posted on 12/26/2022 10:31:50 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana; metmom; kiryandil

Thanks for posting.


2 posted on 12/26/2022 10:33:03 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Morgana

This sounds illegal, and authorities should be involved.


3 posted on 12/26/2022 10:35:32 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Jane Long

I’ve tried to warn you all for such a long time and gotten backlash. There is a school right now in Missouri called “agape boarding school” that is one of these very schools. They are this bad and WORSE. These kids are scared for life.

Right now Paris Hilton and #Breakingcodesilence is pushing to get a bill passed to regulate these schools but you know how these things go.


4 posted on 12/26/2022 10:35:39 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: EEGator

You would think!! How would you feel if you were a teen being dragged from your bed at 3 am by strangers and told “you can do this the easy way or the hard way”. You think you are being kidnapped! Then taken to a school and can’t call your parents? These kids are scared for life. What were these parents thinking?


5 posted on 12/26/2022 10:37:22 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

The OTHER OPTION, short of having your teen ‘kidnapped’, is to SPANK (particularly when very young), at least as long that it is legal. And just IGNORE the Dr. Spock types, that will likely show up here.


6 posted on 12/26/2022 10:37:50 AM PST by BobL
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To: Morgana

I knew deprogramming kidnappers in Minneapolis, they were making a lot of European trips to bring back adult children in cults. I believe they worked for a famous deprogrammer of the time.

We were a partying group at the same primary household and they were always after me to help them, the pay and travel were appealing but I never could figure out how they were not arrested either in Europe or here, although the deprogramming seemed popular at the time culturally.


7 posted on 12/26/2022 10:45:42 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: BobL

I’ve studied this troubled teen industry thing for over a year now.

Over half were adopted kids and the parents are “rehoming” them. Now that is not all of the kids but that is a lot of them. These are children they would not have had as babies or “very young”. Some adopted from other countries.


8 posted on 12/26/2022 10:46:38 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: ansel12

This is not the same thing. I know what you are talking about.


9 posted on 12/26/2022 10:47:21 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: Morgana

I can believe that...I’m just thinking of fellow FReepers who might have wives that read too many ‘Child Rearing’ books and really believe that ‘timeouts’ works.

For the many cases not as clean, it does get far more complicated.


10 posted on 12/26/2022 10:51:25 AM PST by BobL
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To: Morgana

Problem teenagers who are unmanageable by parents; if they had a better alternative the parents would not spend their inheritance trying to save/fux them.


11 posted on 12/26/2022 10:56:18 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Morgana

Problem teenagers who are unmanageable by parents; if they had a better alternative the parents would not spend their inheritance trying to save/fix them.


12 posted on 12/26/2022 10:57:20 AM PST by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: Morgana

I’ve seen these in both UT and Az - I refer to them a “Bataan Death March Schools”.

Love to see them regulated, most are just well-padded torture chambers.


13 posted on 12/26/2022 11:02:58 AM PST by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: Morgana

While I agree there are abusive healthcare industry employees and institutions. You could write this same article about hospitals and senior care or even schools. But the reality is that this industry is needed. Many parents raise kids and through no fault of any party, they become psychotic. Or they develop incredibly bad behavior problems.
Some times the teens terrorize the family. Sometimes they leave, never to be heard from again. Sometimes they show up in jail after jail. What once was a loving child turns into a raving lunatic. A family of means tries to find a humane solution. And that can be very tricky. A psychopath child is not sick. But there are also psychotic children who are. In either case an average parent can’t cope and are in serious threat of danger.


14 posted on 12/26/2022 11:03:48 AM PST by poinq
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To: Morgana

They can’t create their own kids.
They have to steal yours.


15 posted on 12/26/2022 11:04:21 AM PST by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: Morgana

You are being gaslighted, don’t you know?

You’re using a left-wing liberal pro abortion website to tell you that right wing conversion therapy treatment centers and other right wing options are evil.


16 posted on 12/26/2022 11:05:18 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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To: Morgana

These mental health industry horrors never end. The entire profession is nothing but a huge con game. These people have no working therapies. They should be shut down and all staff locked up in similar facilities for a few years. Vile scum preying on desperate parents.


17 posted on 12/26/2022 11:11:11 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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The OTHER OPTION, short of having your teen ‘kidnapped’, is to SPANK (particularly when very young),

My daughter was about 4 or 5. She was being bad and I threatened her with a spanking. She continued, seemingly after some deliberation on her part. I gave her a lst warning, which she ignored with deliberation. So I told her it was time to be put over my knee. I spanked her - hard enought to sting. She didn't cry. It was like she was curious to experience what a spanking was. Spanking was not a useful means for me to use with her.

Thete is no one size fits all solution to what appears to be a recognizable problem, especially where your powers of recognition are limited.

18 posted on 12/26/2022 11:11:35 AM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Morgana

Some of these parents are honestly scared that their unmanageable child will kill them or a sibling while they sleep.

What exactly are they supposed to do when they realize they have a violent and sociopathic child?

CPS and foster care isn’t any safer or better.


19 posted on 12/26/2022 11:12:00 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Did she vote for Trump? "I've known him since I was a little girl," Hilton said. "So yes."

20 posted on 12/26/2022 11:12:51 AM PST by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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