Last month, @nberlat was criticized for arguing correctly that parenting can be tyrannical and abusive, and when those things happen, it's because society has normalized such abuses. Especially among affluent White people.

Methinks Noah (along with yours truly) were correct. https://twitter.com/prettycritical/status/1353941736020652033

Affluent youth have a particular problem because they are perceived to be wealthy, even when in reality, it's their parents' money.

If abusive parents decide to kick their kids out for not submitting to abuse, then those kids are destitute and homeless. https://twitter.com/prettycritical/status/1353945155926175744

Keep in mind that this problem also applies to low income and even middle class youth who are being abused. None of them have money of their own - and will be destitute if their parents kick them out for, say, revealing that they are LGBTQ or refusing to be abused any further.

But unlike low income parents, affluent and wealthy folks like Kellyanne Conway have the means to perpetuate their abuse and insulate themselves from punishment. Even if their acts are illegal and would put them on sex offender registries. https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/1354083892274323457

The wealth buys the best lawyers as well as psychiatrists and counselors who can aid and abet the abuse. The wealth also allows those parents to send their kids off to brutal boarding schools and camps where they are browbeaten for not being compliant with parental abuse.

@LeahRemini and @MikeRinder hit upon this point a few years ago in their A&E show on Scientology, when they interviewed folks sent as youth to the notorious Mace-Kingsley ranch camps because they weren't going along with either Scientology or their parents' abuses.

The Mace-Kingsley camps were very expensive places to send kids. So only the wealthier Scientologists (or those who were willing to max out those credit cards) sent their kids to them. The abuses were beyond imaginable. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/inside-scientology-103288/

Scientology, of course, is notorious for being a cult that promotes everyone abusing everyone else. So you can say that its promoting of parents being abusive to their kids isn't much surprising. But the problem isn't limited to wealthy Xenu cultists. https://tonyortega.org/2017/10/11/tara-and-nathan-subject-of-last-nights-leah-remini-respond-to-scientology-smears/

The military boarding school, with its high-discipline approaches, along with the 'scared straight' camps, are part of the systems of helping abusive affluent and wealthy parents do their business. Same with those 'gay conversion' camps and therapies.

These networks allow families with money to abuse their kids and further punish them for not being compliant with abuse. Many of them are also tolerated by the rest of us in society as part of a belief that sparing the rod spoils the child.

It is a societal problem, that by the way, also manifests in American education generally, both in private schools (48 states allow use of corporal punishment) and public school systems that overuse suspensions.

Also, in 19 states, public schools can use corporal punishment.