Posted on 01/06/2023 4:44:05 PM PST by Morgana
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.
give-em all norplant at birth???
thanks. I’m surprised you responded.
tough question, right ? where we could find no answer.
We did everything recommended by the “powers that be” - school;courts;psych profession etc...to no avail.
I recommendeed the military for my cuz but, that got shot down....mostly because of his drug use.(I still think it was the best choice - but he had a newborn son @ 18...)
Job Corps maybe ?...but he didn’t last long in the jobs he had...
maybe the peace corps - it kept Chris Matthews out of Vietnam.
I have a friend who is taking the “model” we had at the orphanage - sans the brutality - and has set it up as an environment for at risk kids. It really was a great naturing model for the conditions and circumstances at the time.
A different story for another time.
FreeRegrds.
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
This is true, but it is nor new. The famed screen and TV star Steve MacQueen was a classic example and he was born in 1930. His father immediately abandoned his family upon his birth. His mother was flakey and not prepared to live in poverty with a very hyperactive boy. She sent him to a junior reform school, The California Youth Colony, when he was just a boy and when he was a teen sent him a bus ticket to NYC to come live with momma. MacQueen never could really trust any woman, not even his very loyal first wife whose determined mothering helped their three children to become nearly normal tinsel town residents, and whose determined wifery kept this troubled man from going off the rails as his career steadily grew.
I just looked at the Job Corps in Joliet.
My ignorance dismissed it. I apologize for that.
I take it back - the job corps might have been perfect for my cuz.
We never thought of it. Maybe he wouldn’t have walked away from that.
And it is currently the same kind of model my friend set up on a smaller scale
thanks again
I agree. Thank you. I’ll have to watch when my kids aren’t around.
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