The ‘troubled teen’ industry in the USA | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- In the USA, teenagers with behavioral problems often end up in re-education centers. These function like prisons, isolating the young people from the outside world. The harsh educational measures sometimes end in death.
This documentary sheds light on the extreme methods used in re-education facilities in the USA. These include isolation, torture and humiliation, as well as something called "assault therapy". These practices, which have little or nothing to do with traditional psychological treatments, aim to "reform" individuals through discipline and suffering. The adolescents sent there by their parents are between 8 and 18 years old. These parents report being overwhelmed by their adolescent children, citing problems from learning difficulties to substance abuse, social media addiction, anxiety disorders, depression or a sexual orientation they find unacceptable.
These private facilities do a lucrative business. In the hope that their children will get better, families spend thousands of dollars every month. Some even mortgage their homes to pay for their children to be part of these programs. Their children, on the other hand, can suffer lifelong damage there. There have also been cases of suicide. The film features young adults who have managed to escape the prison school system and parents who realized too late how cruel this system is.
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"Dependancies" lists everything that makes a teen a teen.
To everyone in the chat that has been in this situation. Just know that I stand with you in the endeavor of bringing these hellish places to light.
I am a type 1 diabetic and testified against my sister. Texas placed me into the system and used me for pharma R&D on pediatric clinical trials. I was raped, choked, starved, drugged, and my diabetes was never properly regulated. I spent 3 years as a prisoner and punished if I spoke out. CASA and caseworkers rarely would talk to me, if they did, I was threatened and punished. I suggest you watch sucker punch, it's only the tip of the iceberg.
The main issue I keep seeing across the board is that kids need attention from their parents. People want to have kids but they don't want to put in the work
So true! Everyone wants to have kids but nobody wants to actually do the parenting!
Not everyone wants kids, that's why abortion is right up there with inflation and immigration in November election.
Parents have their own individual happiness to fulfill, remember?
LOL people want to have kids? talk to many DEM voters lately? :p
@@raylevi5343 when you bring a kid to the world, you have a duty towards them. A parent's 'selfish happiness' should be sidelined until the kid leaves the nest.
in a capitalistic society; everyone and everything is an industry
It's a country with a prison industry, so a "troubled teen industry" is just a long-term supplier. Because mental health care and support for struggling parents is too much for the "land of the free"...
95% females are unable to breed genetically fit offspring with a ten man. The rural braindrain is terminal. A troubled teen is the product of selection
Dividends of the Corporate Militia, as Pres. Eisenhower WARNED 🚨 5:48
As someone on the autism spectrum and who has suffered ADHD and depression, when I heard kids like I was being round up in these, it hurt.
Wars inside this country are more damaging than the wars outside of it.
How is this child abuse even legal?
Bc of profit plus there's no morals in people's hearts. Basically they're heartless which makes them less than an animal.
It’s the US… as long as it makes the county money, it’s legal or being tolerated.
Why do you hate freedom?
It's court sanctioned in every county court under state family laws.
Children don't have rights in the US. They are basically seen as property of their parents.
I'm glad this is being called out, I'm sure many people still deal with the effects of being abused there
Why would anxiety and depression be a reason to send a kid to troubled teen school? WtF
Every annual visit, you fill out a 10 question survey asking if you're sad, enjoy things, etc. If you answer 2 surveys with just 1 question not optimal, that's enough in Texas to prove you're potentially a harm to yourself or others in a court of law. Every CHIPS or Medicaid pediatric patient is required to answer survey. The program systematically reviews these surveys and are referred to CPS in that county. The family is targeted until kids turn 19.
Yayy🎉🎉 One more wonderful DW documentary.. ❤ absolutely loved it.
I went to a residential school for a year when I was 11-12 yrs. It was in southern missouri. I'm so grateful that they understood the importance of going outside. We were in the middle of nowhere so in case someone did run they would always catch them. But especially in the summer we were required to spend a couple hours outside everyday. It didn't make everything perfect but it improved things a lot. I'm so grateful for the staff that was there, a lot of them actually wanted to do good.
I will say the child psych ward I was sent to for 3 weeks before I was placed in the residential school was terrible. I so wish I could remember the name of the facility. I know it's in St Louis. There was a nurse specifically who would verbally abused me. I didn't eat a lot and she deemed me as bulimic and would make it a huge deal whenever I had to go to the bathroom. Scream down the unit, we got a singer. Children are the future and shouldn't be broken down by broken adults.
Wow, how was any of this ever considered helpful to teens with trauma or other mental health issues? Whoever entered these programs mentally healthy surely wasn’t anymore once they got out.
Thank you DW.
From Illinois USA.
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment! Kudos from Germany. :)
They do the same with DUIs. Few attorneys will fight the false charges due to their nature and it's become a huge business as the courts force people to buy substance tests, rehab classes, interlocks, etcetera.
Not just DUI. Anything in this country that people find a way to exploit. Same with the rehab center, patients are forced into labor camp. They work long hours with no break and no pay,& no safety work conditions in the chicken factory.
Same with teens with troubles and they got sent to shelter waiting for foster parents. While they are there, they experience horrific treatment, yet the program continues to receive funding from federal.
It seems like in the U.S.A there are money that can be made just from anything, including 'troubled' teens, at the expense of the child's human dignity. It's just morally and legally wrong, in the long term.
The problem starts with the parents putting their kids in sich Institutions. What loving parent would do such a thing. And then the "kidnapping"-method of sending the kids off. Even more insane.
You can’t outsource parenting you can get help while remaining the parent and in the picture. Children are too precious to outsource them.
This country needs to start supporting our children the right way! Not putting into some place to suffer!
How? Having both a mom and dad at home?
Uhhh , Ukraine . .. Weapons aid package... Moneyyyy, Sorry US kiddos not enough for ya .Maybe next president can do that 😂
Excellent journalism
Another truthful introduction and incredible documentary about troubled teens industrial centers in the USA 🇺🇸 of America. Shared by an amazing (DW) documentary channel.
Just heartbreaking.
Thank you, DW, for bringing this nightmare to light. Love all your documentaries.
This is a sad episode of Euphoria.... I'm speechless, these people should be in prison
A $69B a year industry based on 100,00 children? 200,000 children? That's $700,000 to $350,000 per child? There's actually someone paying for that?
I couldn't get far into this before it just became unbelievable. Maybe if I had stayed longer it would have made sense but you lost me at about 4 minutes.
They pay to legally get rid of their kids without society dreaming them as horrible people.
It's taxpayer funded in Texas.
It's the Court Systems that err. DW addresses parents that volunteer their kids, but the majority, I'd say 80-90%, happen because it is demanded by Court System under threatening jail time to both kids and parents. County courts are rarely scrutinized, and the experts get kickbacks to testify on what is needed. I've been on both sides, as a ward of the state and hiring attorney to clear false accusations. Every family is targeted, regardless of income or location.
All the medications they've all been on prior to them being there should be strictly recorded imo. And exactly what they are then given while there. :(
Doctors making money via prescriptions, also medical bills for parents, taxpayers
The drug logs are entered, but who records them cook the books.
The results of poor parenting, over medicating and social media addiction.
10 years i spent in residential treatments its not something i would wish on my enemys
Stay wise and strong:)
Commercialization equals institutionalization equals dehumanization of the most vulnerable, the youth, the elderly , and the different.
What type of families send their children to such like this school
Broken families, desperate families and families who probably think that they place is much nicer than it really is.
I thought in China was were they said there were torture camps for kids.
I got locked in one of these, I also got solitary confinement. The only thing I got out of it is a real sense of fight or flight, generally fight. Although at 53 I’m just fine I have something in me that can become violent if you try an restrain me or grab me in the wrong way.
This is the byproduct of parents not wanting to raise their children. They would rather foist them off on the school system or unregulated businesses like the ones featured in this documentary. School is for learning academics not a nanny whom you hired to raise your kids. Pay attention to them and spend time with them so all their needs for attention and love are met.
An we’ll off friend of mine was maliciously accused of sexual misconduct with his son- who lobbed the accusation to get back at his dad who was at his wits end dealing with his son’s drug addiction. There is a need for such facilities sometimes.
My sister did the same to my dad. When she was 12. Dad kicked her out, but let her back in 4 yrs later. she poisoned him and attempted to cut my head off.
Why does the Trouble Teen Industry still a thing in the US?... Paris Hilton denounced that industry many years ago, so why is that business still running?... Are they spending millions in lobby?
Passed a FEDERAL LAW when the federal corporation is behind the school 😂
This is some sick dystopia.
“Land of freedom and opportunity”
Parents would rather be in debt to outsource their parental responsibilities.😢
America truly has way too many issues to sort out and yet they still meddle into the affairs of other countries instead of solving their own social problems.
I had to go to one of these in Utah . The one I went to just got shut down by the state within the last few years for another mishandled death . A kid got gravely ill and they just ignored her till she ended up dying .
Heartbreaking
Paris Hilton went to one of the so-called therapeutic boarding schools in Utah in the 90s.
poor her 🙄🙄🙄🙄
It's an industry. That alone says it all
This starts with the ego of the parents. They have these egocentric mindset that, they are better then everyone, because they accomplished so much in life and their kid must be saint and successful, just like them. As a teen, i was also a mess, i was dead drunk 2 or 3 times per week and smoked and i was hustle to deal with, but around 21 22 years old, i started to figure out what i want in life and i quited drinking and smoking, found a job and started to put effort towards accomplishing my goals. I got on tracks without this 'troubled kid' school prison and i think this institution is useless. It's normal to sometimes fall low in life, but everyone should have the freedom to decide for himself, if to stay in the bottom or clime out of the pit, but no one should be forced to be the best version of himself.
and the other countries keep saying U.S is the third world, how do they explain this then?
I, myself have been abused in "troubled teen" schools myself; unfortunately.
Funny thing is non of them were black or Asian Americans…!!!!
Parents is not easy job , I grow up in poor and violation in Thailand, I was one of smart kid in the same age …
Second year in high school they move me out of smart kid class coz my grades wasn’t good enough… so I met new other whole stupid kid and I felt so great that i became the smartest one in class and no competition,stress,and most importantly sport … I was a gay boy hangout with the gangster kid and we are friends and of course they all know am gay coz am also a cheerleader… but with my intelligence I turn them to respect who I am by helping them with the thing to help get a better grades so am gay boss mafia …from poor family which is am still proud of my high school time…
Point is.. you are just parents you know nothing what your kids feel or how these day social of their time… I was not happy in the class that I have to remember names of every capital in every country in this world… (but I did) do I need to know every element and their atoms???? I was actually like it .. but noooo you don’t don’t send your kid to strangers and hope that they will fix your problems!!! Are they raising 10 kids and everyone got noble prizes???? You are parents and your job is to be stupid that is… and don’t ever think that other human like you will do better job than you!!!
No matter what kids or event adult acting weid I personally understand… we all kind of things we don’t know their life … so i don’t look down on people who stupid coz my all stupid friends they are own business,i drop out can’t finish high school… thank to god that gave me this smart brain and brace to run away from home when I was 17 … education system in Thailand is disaster .. I was so scared so lost and lonely… in a real word alone with know support…
But now I am typing comments in English language the language I never care to study back in high school. Listening English documentary in other perspectives…
Been traveling 28 countries from last 10 years… live in Switzerland 🇨🇭
Lots of international friends here and I happy to visit dad 1 time a year… it’s sounds mean
… but when I was run away from home…
non of my parents was looking for me… non. 0 never never ever ….. when you say your story is trauma… oh please come on you guy choose use condom if you don’t know how to parenting human… you are all was once a kid…
Stupid parent…
This feels very Dickensian, like Bleak House or Oliver Twist. Also, the production style of this video feels like a Vice News video. I'm guessing that DW took the Vice News staff who were recently fired.
This documentary has a lot bias, as usual on DW.
I'm sorry but these centers seem like they do a GREAT thing for many young people. Of course there will some bad apples here and there.
end for-profit "teen treatment centers"
This is jail
I can't watch this.
I was in Anclote Manor! Known as zThe Horrir of Tarpon Springs! Florida
How does Meredith afford a newer car?
Well atleast Big pharma wont be able to profit from them i hope
Pharmaceutical R & D for pediatric trials. I was one of the pediatric guinea pigs that proved high blood sugars as side effects for T1D. No parents, then no consent needed.
What other western country has this industry ? Is a family problem
Rules and regulations should be followed.
“If the owner raises 10 kids and all of them win noble prize in his/her. resume i will let them help my kid”
But if they just regular guy, with who have nothing better than me if I am sure I not gonna leave my kid to the guy who looks just a guide tour… of crazy hospital…😂 oh dear
First word problem is so stupid 😂😂 i don’t know how to be a good parent 😂😂 simple…
“just don’t leave your kid “
How long for masturbation if peeing takes 1 minute and pooping 3 minutes?
Dude wtf? Get out
Dont spare the rod
Who hurt you?
Say something original, please. That's so cliche and worn out 😖
Paris Hilton would be dead if she wasn't locked up once. Of course the deaths of these people are regrettable and reforms must be made, but this is not Disney's world. I know from experience that people who have consumed drugs will not be rehabilitated with kisses and hugs and if they are not rehabilitated they will die and in many cases their children and close relatives will die first. I think it's great that they try new approaches with less violence, but without discipline I fear they will fail. And by the way, the Frenchman talked a lot and didn't say anything about the solution he proposes. Nothing good comes from Europe, remember that these guys are not even capable of defending themselves and they create beings that they don't know what they are and that they expect others to solve their problems.
This is a result of decades of soft parenting, never saying "No" to their kids, saying they're special and can do whatever they want, never disciplining them for bad behavior, and in some cases when the parents (usually immigrants from Asia) discipline their kids, it's called 'child abuse' and the parents are arrested..
Dw😊😊
All they need to be healed is a environment without Radiation pollution chemical and poison free foods and water
this is sad
but this is a normal high school in a third world
No it's not! Violence & Medication? Which high school did you go to? I went to a public high school in Kirinyaga county, and I had way more fun and would definitely go back rather than experience what these American teens are going through.
As an Argentinian; no way.
@mr.mathenge ofcourse they only pointed on the bad side it must have had a good side just that it is overweigh by the bad
on medication that is tough
but on violence hey there's worse here
No it’s not tf
We need such therapeutic schools for the Muslims in Europe.
Take it positive this a good way to transform boys to men and install discipline, unless excess power is used when disciplining the kid, this seems a good thing.
It’s not. These kids are abused in every way.
Agreed!
@@matteo7092 @ 18 teen I had similar n worse training in military school, hurts when doing it but later you will see the fruits. We should have measures and policies to make sure the program runs in safe mode. If we neglect them we will loose them
…. You are the one who needs help.
I agree that those kids who don’t have love and support from home usually end up with problems in their teens. Some parents are patient and are able to be there for their children while some parents might need a helping hand from schools like these. The documentary is showing the bad side which creates a buzz. There are also countless individuals who have said that these schools created life long friendships, gave them discipline and give their life structure and good life lessons. Students dying is tragic and needs to be eliminated but that is not the entire picture. I too went to a boarding school that was rough and I had teachers we feared and also respected. Some kids need somebody like that in their life to help them find their way through life especially if love and invitation to choose good does not work I.e they are not consistently making the right and safe choices.
got a little hateful here at the minute 7:00-8:30
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Absolutely. This was the only center to allow DW in, and DW treats them this way? Shameful. They were just looking to make a hit piece from the get-go.
18:33 guy looks creepy af