Thanks for posting.
This sounds illegal, and authorities should be involved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They can’t create their own kids.
They have to steal yours.
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.
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.
“wilderness therapy, where children are forced to hike for miles and live in the wild with a lack of basic hygiene and food”…
Also known as Basic Training.
Occasionally I watch The Dog Whisperer.
The reason the dogs are behaving badly is because the owners are trained wrong.
I am reasonably assured the same principle applies here in most cases.
My (all too) personal experience as a step dad to teen kids is this. If a teen is hell bent on out doing his last fk up regardless of consequences, there isn’t a damn thing a parent can do about it. The kids live in an alternate reality that they believe is defined by rap music lyrics, video games, and utter disrespect of anything resembling a civil society and right/responsible behavior. My advice...never, ever, EVER marry someone with kids. EVER! Emancipate em and give em an early calculated inheritance and file a restraining order.
This type of “school” was commenced on me back in 1969 through 1976 Cincinnati OH and I escaped being trapped for life in a psychotic inmate system possible for life by the skin of my teeth. As I grew to about 15-16 I was getting VERY violent and strong and staff could no longer control me. My parents decided to turn down the offer to have State of Ohio take control and they got me home. My violence and rage of rape, beatings and psychotropic injections was a very long way from stopping. Took a stretch in a state prison to square me away to a life as citizen rather than inmate. Today I am 62 and the bitter rage is a distant memory yet still there buried deep.
Scrolling down to just one thread lower, and I saw an alternative to these programs. Perhaps you’d prefer this?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4119004/posts
Why are these people still walking the earth?
Not all of these programs for “troubled teens” are like this so this is a sweeping generalization. Parent’s should research the background of such an organization very carefully before sending their child to one. If they do not, they may end up with a child in worse shape than before. Hard work is not in and of itself bad for a child. Children today are not expected to exert themselves to do anything so the slightest chore can be considered abuse.