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[coyotegoth]

Just read this; my reaction keeps veering between imagining the level of despair parents must be feeling to shatter the bonds of trust and respect with their child so definitively, and simple horror. Feel gratitude to my parents all over again, for their near-limitless patience in raising me, despite their own problems.s

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[reive.livejournal.com]

I wish it was always parental despair. I've seen some pretty excessive shit happen in situations where the parents just refused to deal with normal teen crap. Not that excessive, but still excessive.

[ambyguity.livejournal.com]

holy crap... that's disturbing...

I wonder if they have a program like that where they kidnap parents who are abusive towards their kids and put them in the middle of the tundra.

From age 13 on I didn't have parental supervision monday-friday and some weekends from 7 am to 7pm or later. I still turned out fine? Why? because i was raised properly from day 1 to make good choices for myself. I think these kids who are "acting out" are really just being tied to the whipping posts for the crappy parenting skills they were raised under.

#@$#@ this pisses me off... how about we organize a elite 007 team and liberate the teenagers?

[kyra.livejournal.com]

Reading that entry made me shudder with horror. If someone came for me in the middle of the night and took me away, telling me that I was being institutionalized, I would believe I was being kidnapped. I wouldn't trust anything they were doing to or for me. I would believe my parents didn't know, and if I was dangerous to the point of having to be institutionalized, I think it's entirely possible that would make me snap.

I am not a parent. I do not intend to be a parent. I cannot comprehend what a parent must feel, sending their child away in that fashion to an institution that takes kids away in the dead of night so they can't plead with parents to let them stay.

But I do know that if you don't have the balls to look your child in the eye and tell them that you love them and are getting them help, you do not deserve to be a parent.

[micahreborn.livejournal.com]

i'm sure there's a reason i haven't heard of this place before. a lot of in-depth publicity can bring some bad things to light.