1 Comments Posted by madi

lynne-
i have spent many years in places like this, and i know that the staff get treated like shit, its fucked up, but you have to look at both sides. you are defending yours. as someone whose parents left them in the care of places where stuff like the lack of privacy, food deprivation, sexual, emotional and physical abuse did in fact happen at the hands of state paid staff in facilities (and not tens of years ago either- its going on to this day, just much more hush hush), you have to understand that while there are good people out there (as I'm sure you are) defending yourselfs and martrying your self is not going to stop the abuse thats happening still to kids. See? I like this web site because it exposes things that happened to defenseless people in institiutions, but as the photos are old and the buildings condemed and decreped, its easy to put it out of your mind as part of history. My suggestion to you Lynne is to get off the defense of yourself and your field and people will quit attacking. This needs to be seen for what it is. A horror, and while to you it may not be so horrific, to others it is extremely damaging, and there's a lot of work to be done.
-M