The people in the mission want to believe it's neglect because they don't have the heart to accept that these children are encouraged to behave in outrageous ways.
Here is an article that contradicts this article in today's WSJ.
One Legacy You Don't Want
To Pass On -- Workaholism
Over the holidays, Alida Cornelius's daughter, a college freshman, brought home a plan that shocked her parents: She would work as a waitress full-time straight through her vacation, including Christmas, taking no time to relax.
Worried that her daughter was becoming a workaholic, Ms. Cornelius urged her to kick back, enjoy some skiing. Her father, Krish Krishnan, says he was dismayed to see his daughter taking his example of working long hours to extremes. "Don't be so hard on yourself," he says he told her.
But their advice fell on deaf ears. Concerned, Dr. Krishnan says he hopes his daughter doesn't become obsessed with work.
As the baby boomlet hits their teens and 20s, many parents are dismayed to see they've created little adults just like themselves: workaholics. They toil to exhaustion, they're stressed and distracted, and they seldom make time to spend with loved ones. The shock of seeing themselves in their kids brings many of these parents to a dead halt.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB10741200963140000,00.htmlThat's rather a "don't subject your own children to work -- open the borders" piece from the WSJ