Troubled Teen Industry. What a perfect thing to call it.

https://people.com/netflix-docuseries-the-program-spotlights-abuse-troubled-teen-industry-8603404?hid=65eb12c0d5b06cb731ef5c705039f8170e4e62ee&did=12155201-20240303&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&utm_content=030324&lctg=65eb12c0d5b06cb731ef5c705039f8170e4e62ee

That IS a good name for it.
The docuseries sounds depressing but important.
Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping sounds like topics people need to hear more about! I wonder if they will include the BIG ones? I'll be checking it out.

In the Deseret link, we see the link to Utah. What a surprise!

"A New York boarding school for troubled teens that has ties to Utah has been ordered to refund more than $1 million to parents and stop misrepresenting itself..."

It was based in St. George and founded by Utah resident Robert Lichfield who doesn't sound like my kind of person.

In MIssouri - "Christian" ones:

https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article286243755.html

If that is paywalled,

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/christian-boarding-school-missouri-kidnapping-abm-ministries-piedmont/63-087dcba0-da98-4ad7-9ccc-ff14fb4c17b1

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/agape-boarding-school-shut-down-missouri-investigation/

Is there any one of these schools that does not engage in child abuse? They should all be shut down. And the survivors of child abuse should find a good lawyer.

There's no place for private industry in the care of troubled teens. Members are too corrupt to be trusted.

I find it strange that parents should think that the best way of "fixing" their children is to abandon them to the care of strangers a long way from anywhere. Apart from the fact that the concept of "fixing" children raises the issue of how those children "should" be - a rather frightening idea for me - I would have thought (as a parent and grandparent whose children have not "needed fixing") that parental presence (not necessarily even intervention) is key to bringing up balanced children who end up being happy without damaging others around them...

Exactly, Soft Machine.

I think a lot of parents need to be "fixed" too.

I've seen a lot of that in my long career in teaching.

Utah is notorious for these. My neighbor's son works at one where they have horses. It is down by Provo somewhere. He went to BYU and on a mission and we know he is gay as he has talked to the "ex."

But I hear oh this is such a good place and that is such a good place, and eventually something happens like someone getting hurt or dying and then we hear the truth. They need to make these illegal.

I agree. A lot of parents need to be fixed. Sending them off to be abused is a really poor choice and I assume scars the kids for life.



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