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I read about this place in an Observer article via a link on Robot Wisdom and I've never quite been able to get it out of my head.
It's a place where you can send your teenager (if you are in the US - UK law wouldn't permit it I think) to straighten them out. I don't know quite why the thought of sending children to this place bothers me so much - far worse things happen to many children around the world, after all.
I think it's partly the fact that it's considered okay for the parents to do it without oversight from some sort of independent child welfare body, and partly that it's so easy to imagine yourself into the children's situation - more so than it is into, say, the much more horrific position of a child soldier.
Whatever. It disturbed me, but there's not a whole lot I can do about it except say what I think: it ain't right.
Posted by MFreestone at November 21, 2003 03:31 PM