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• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The parents often truly do not understand how bad these camps are and are often deceived by the institutions themselves. Part of the strategies to make the treatment so outlandish, to use such strange terminology, that the kids can’t properly communicate the abuse without sounding insane.

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  • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Jesus fucking Christ on a cracker, this makes no sense to me.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      When your kid has behavioral issues that start spiraling out of control, it can put a ton of strain on you and your family. It canbecome all consuming. You can’t send them to hang out with friends, you can’t send them to school, you can’t do anything without them likely lashing out or otherwise causing issues that disrupt everyone’s life constantly. That does not mean the kid is doing something wrong, the reality is just that it can be incredibly difficult to deal with day in and day out for.

      At some point you’ll look for anyone that says “I can fix this. We can teach your kids what they need to learn.”

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      • undeffeined@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Thank you for taking the time to write that. I can understand those circumstances, what I can’t wrap my head around is the methods described. Children need acceptance and love, on top of discipline; not punishement.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But don’t the kids who finish take revenge on the institutes a couple of years later when they are adults and realize how fucked up it is?

    I mean, at least sue them or something? It said it existed 40 years.

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    • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same reason victims of sexual assault struggle to go after the perpetrators.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The kids who get out usually are not in a shape to fight back either mentally or financially and society looks down on them.

      The best attempt was Paris Hilton.

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They are so fucked up when they leave that they don’t have the capacity to do much.

      And even so, the institutions are protected. The people who get out “have a track record”.

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      • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They also close down and rename all the time for exactly this reason. It makes it awfully hard to do anything when the court records say We Fuck Up Your Kid LLC hasn’t existed for 3 years. There’s also often layers of legal shells that need to be peeled away too - a lot of them hire teens and young adults partly because they don’t know the law and are easy to throw under the bus when someone DOES die, and they’re easy to threaten into silence. That also doesn’t get into the complicity of local LEOs, town and state governments, and just outright lying - my former boyfriend wound up in one before he killed himself, and to everyone on the outside, they were just told it was a mental hospital for teens, thus, anything they told you was a lie.*

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