The Joy Is Not Optional: The Growing Kids God's Way Protocol

super interesting page, I wish I had high speed internet, it looks like an interesting story!

I remember when I first read about Elan. Conversion therapy camps and similar were popular in the 2000s, and a friend was abducted and spent a year in one because his father felt he needed to learn to respect his family and the church. It permanently derailed his life and ended his relationship with his family, and thankfully not by suicide.

He came back hostile and afraid, never being able to let go of the belief that anything he did, anywhere he went, however he tried to protect himself, that there was nothing he could do to stop himself from being kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured at someone else's whim without any recourse. Twenty years on, he's got a loving wife and family of his own, but he's never quite recovered.