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.