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Religious Boarding Schools Disclaimer: The text above can be considered biased by some because the author lives in a country, which have ratified the UN Conventions on the Rights of a child.
In every religion you can find examples of parents, who wants to make sure that their children grows up believing in the same God as they believe in.

In fact when my own children was baptized I had to appoint three adults, who are assigned to make sure that my children would be introduced to the Christian belief if I would pass away before they can confirm their Christian belief aged about 14 or 15.

However, most parents sees this promise as a statement of intention rather than a duty. If my off-spring to my sorrow should choose a different kind of belief, I would not try to force them into a certain belief.

But some parents see it as their duty to ensure a certain belief. When we are talking the Christian belief they are not satisfied with a general view on Jesus. We will even choose the branch among many forms of Christian belief their child should believe in.

On our Wiki database, most of the so-called religious schools serve Christian values. We are of course aware that other faiths have their behavior modification programs also. Whenever survivors would help us to locate them and describe then on our wiki, we would receive this info with gratitude.

Sending adolescents to foreign cultures for religious behavior modification

In our wiki database we found an example of how a couple in the United States abandoned their teen in Cambodia so he could be a monk until they believed that he behaved good enough to be allowed to return. We are not aware if this example covers a larger traffic.

However in many European countries a lot of teenager are ending up in Africa and the Middle East because they become "too European" compared with the values their parents wants them to live after. One such example is Faith Montessori in Ghana. In Denmark a former police chief stated that between 60 and 100 people primary teenage girls and young adults disappear every year without a trace [1].

United States

In the United States we have two larger groups of religious facilities. Those are the group of Roloff Homes and the Roloff spin-off group.

They are characterized by use of corporal punishment (some places have turned to writing religious texts as punishment instead), isolation rooms with speaker running 24/7 with sermons, level system and limited access to communication with families.

While the first homes started to appear in the 1950, they appear in larger numbers even today in States like Florida and Missouri due to a relaxed legislation.

Denmark

The department of education tries to monitor various day-schools so they can fulfill the minimum standards in the public school system in Denmark. Several schools have been shut down already. Some continuation schools are based on Christian values, but they are not allowed to cut ties between the teen and his or her family. Normally the adolescents can return home in most weekend and they are closed during the holidays. The offer form 8 to 10 equal to the standards offered by the public school system.

[1] Indvandrerpiger forsvinder sporløst (Immigrant girls dissapear without a trace - article in Danish)