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2003-07-03
Moonie psychological boot camp cult
A post on the Interesting People list pointed me to this horrific story in the Observer. The poster, one Tim Dedopulos, abstracted it this way: "Rather than accepting that parenting plays any issue in teen behavior, wealthy US parents are imprisoning their kids in a Caribbean brain-washing camp (amongst almost 2000 other similar sites) that would make the Moonies proud."
The Observer article abstracts itself this way:
When you have a teenager on the rampage, who are you going to turn to? In America, parents send their troubled offspring to Jamaica's Tranquility Bay - a 'behaviour-modification centre' which charges $40,000 a year to 'cure' them. Decca Aitkenhead, the first journalist to gain access to the centre in five years, wonders if there isn't too high a price to pay.
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