On 2005-01-18 21:54:00, Anonymous wrote:
"why all of the foul language?"
Probably because *most* of the people on this board have had intense, personal experiences with programs and understandably feel very strongly about those experiences.
It's a serious subject. Worrying about whether various words used discussing it would offend your pastor or the FCC does a grave disservice to all the people involved and basically makes light of their very real pain.
If your religion says foul language is a sin, then don't *you* use it.
But if you allowed its presence to become an excuse to ignore the problems, or to pick one side over the other, you would be moving from practicing your religion to abusing your religion as an excuse to treat others badly.
I think part of how the programs avoid the expense and hassle of reform is they convince the parents that reform, licensing, and oversight would mean they couldn't get help for their kids.
What reform means is that the parents would be secure that they would really get the services they're paying out a whole lot of money for, and that their kid would get treatment that would likely be helpful and would be much likelier to *not* be harmful---because if it was harming the kid they'd change treatments.
Reform doesn't mean no care. It means higher quality care.
And "foul language" is trivial, next to that issue.
Timoclea