07-01-2003, 11:08 AM
â¦who need to be removed from the contributing gene pool.
Most children are not born into this world as sociopaths, psychotics, or whatever evil creatures society makes them out to be. Sure, they might possess a genetic disposition to develop a bi-polar condition, schizophrenia, ADD or some other physiological disorder, but that alone does not make children monsters. Trauma and horrible parenting does. Treating the symptoms of a disease (some cases of bad parenting falls into this description) rather than the problems is folly. Allowing irresponsible and negligent parents to continue breeding should be criminal.
How does being treated as less than human encourage a child to âwantâ to fit into human society? Even convicted criminals serving prison time are treated with more dignity and humanely than the children in Wwasp run institutions. Yet, the children sent to places like Tranquility were not given their day in court; their society, their government failed to grant them the same rights they grant criminals. I have no doubt that the misguided parents who send their children to places like Tranquility provided an inadequate and abusive home environment for their âproblem childâ. The same dysfunctional parents who spawn âunmanageableâ children are given absolute power over the most crucial period of their lives. Is it not enough that these children were deprived of the nurturing foundation and proper parental support and guidance they need for growth and development? Now substitute âabuseâ and âfearâ for âloveâ and âtrustâ and commit the worst offense possible on a human being: destroy the spirit. Is there hope for a child whose spirit has been broken of living a full life? Are we to expect the offspring of such parents to become well-adjusted members of society?
âBut most students are already emotionally damaged when they arrive, with a quarter on medication for bi-polar, oppositional defiance, or attention-deficit disorders.â
I wonder how many of those children on prescription drugs really need them. I wonder how many of those children need them because of environmental factors such as traumatic home life and abusive parents. Mental disorders arise from a mixture of influences â heredity, biology and environment. If heredity and biology canât be altered, then shouldnât environment be addressed? The same people who condemn illicit drug use are asking doctors to prescribe drugs to their children. Insurance will cover most of the costs, so letâs just treat the symptoms and ignore the problem, right?
A society that stands by such parents and encourages them to ship their unruly and unmanageable children to a desolate island concentration camp is sick. A responsible member of society would rather question why a child behaves the way s/he does and take a look at the parents and âhomeâ environment. It is no wonder that extreme âtreatmentâ centers such as Tranquility are tolerated and even welcomed in societies around the globe. After all, broken and dysfunctional families and children born into single parent homes or orphaned/abandoned is becoming more the acceptable standard rather than the exception.
Xi
Most children are not born into this world as sociopaths, psychotics, or whatever evil creatures society makes them out to be. Sure, they might possess a genetic disposition to develop a bi-polar condition, schizophrenia, ADD or some other physiological disorder, but that alone does not make children monsters. Trauma and horrible parenting does. Treating the symptoms of a disease (some cases of bad parenting falls into this description) rather than the problems is folly. Allowing irresponsible and negligent parents to continue breeding should be criminal.
How does being treated as less than human encourage a child to âwantâ to fit into human society? Even convicted criminals serving prison time are treated with more dignity and humanely than the children in Wwasp run institutions. Yet, the children sent to places like Tranquility were not given their day in court; their society, their government failed to grant them the same rights they grant criminals. I have no doubt that the misguided parents who send their children to places like Tranquility provided an inadequate and abusive home environment for their âproblem childâ. The same dysfunctional parents who spawn âunmanageableâ children are given absolute power over the most crucial period of their lives. Is it not enough that these children were deprived of the nurturing foundation and proper parental support and guidance they need for growth and development? Now substitute âabuseâ and âfearâ for âloveâ and âtrustâ and commit the worst offense possible on a human being: destroy the spirit. Is there hope for a child whose spirit has been broken of living a full life? Are we to expect the offspring of such parents to become well-adjusted members of society?
âBut most students are already emotionally damaged when they arrive, with a quarter on medication for bi-polar, oppositional defiance, or attention-deficit disorders.â
I wonder how many of those children on prescription drugs really need them. I wonder how many of those children need them because of environmental factors such as traumatic home life and abusive parents. Mental disorders arise from a mixture of influences â heredity, biology and environment. If heredity and biology canât be altered, then shouldnât environment be addressed? The same people who condemn illicit drug use are asking doctors to prescribe drugs to their children. Insurance will cover most of the costs, so letâs just treat the symptoms and ignore the problem, right?
A society that stands by such parents and encourages them to ship their unruly and unmanageable children to a desolate island concentration camp is sick. A responsible member of society would rather question why a child behaves the way s/he does and take a look at the parents and âhomeâ environment. It is no wonder that extreme âtreatmentâ centers such as Tranquility are tolerated and even welcomed in societies around the globe. After all, broken and dysfunctional families and children born into single parent homes or orphaned/abandoned is becoming more the acceptable standard rather than the exception.
Xi