doctor disease redux

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Wed May 23 11:33:01 PDT 2001


I think you need to realize that "controlling" children is not everyone's goal. It is giving children what they need to thrive. The capitalist culture would like all children to be docile and grow up to be docile worker bees. It that takes drugs, hey they will do that. I'm not even going to bother answering the rest of this ridiculous email - only two choices? Absurd. The fact that you refer to a child as "brat" shows how hopelessly twisted you are. Marta

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> Marta, please spare us that tripe. The fact of the matter is that today
> you cannot control unruly children without risking being accused of child
> abuse (which unlike criminal charges do not require any "due process" to be
> followed by investigating agencies, a mere report can result in a child
> ending up in a foster care).
>
> So if the brat that happens to be your child throws repeated tantrums, say,
> because you did not buy him what his peers have, you have basically two
> choices:
>
> (1) sending the brat to a boot camp (if you can afford the $2,000 -$6,000
> per month tuition), or
> (2) medicate him (most insurance plans cover prescription drugs).
>
> Now, if you are, say, a single parent with a "hyperactive" (i.e.
> out-of-control) child, which option would you be able to afford?
>
> Thank goddess for drugs - without them mental asylums and prisons would
> thrive.
>
> Wojtek

-- Marta Russell author, Los Angeles, CA http://disweb.org/ Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/russell_ramps.html



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