Law & Order -- Kidnapped Children Who Don't "Try" to Escape???

[IdaBriggs]

I admit it -- I enjoy watching the "Law & Order" franchise, and this issue has now been addressed on both their "Special Victims" and their "regular" show.

But the fact that they even ASK the dumbest question in the world -- "Why don't children, WHILE STILL CHILDREN, kept in captivity for many years, try to escape after several years have passed and it has become NORMAL?" -- is really making me ask that classic question of my own:

:wtf:

Children by their very nature have to be ADAPTABLE, and they are trained that adults set the rules. Tons of children every day are put in untenable situations that they hate with their families as their parents redefine what the "family" is based on their own changeable romantic relationships.

Got a new boyfriend/girlfriend who is moving in? Meet your new siblings! Oops! That relationship is now OVER -- and those kids are now out of your life forever!

You can't even use "marriage" as an option, because the serial nature of those relationships is just as bad, and the paradigm is the same:

Meet your new mommy/daddy -- their kids are now your brothers/sisters. Oops! Divorce or other separation means its now OVER -- and those kids are now out of your life forever!

So, with adults always redefining what your family is, doesn't it make sense that a captive child would "accept" the new "family" that an authority figure adult has established? For heaven's sake, we expect children to "accept" new "family structures" commonly with foster care, grandparents, aunts, uncles, adoption, and romantic re-alignment -- how is a CHILD going to figure out that "sexual predator" is any different???

My own family has a "divorce/remarriage" situation in it, which gave me seven siblings of varying degrees of relatedness: full blooded, half blooded by my mother, half blooded by my father, and pure "step" with "legally adopted" thrown in for good measure. There were times when as a child I found my parents INTOLERABLE with the horribleness of having to deal with their crap, but "getting help from a teacher" or some other authority figure was not an option because "the devil you knew was better than the devil you didn't" plus, hello! Their weird quirks and issues were our families NORMAL, and it wasn't until years later that I had the mental capacity to even QUESTION if those NORMALS were ones I wished to continue experiencing.

I was a CHILD for pete's sake, and "brainwashing me into NORMAL" was what the adults around me did!

And these writers are even ASKING why CHILDREN kidnapped by Sexual Predators adapt/adjust/survive and accept horrific horrible situations as NORMAL?

What part of CHILD do these people not understand? What part of "no other life experience" do these people NOT GOT? What part of NORMAL NECESSARY OBEDIENCE TO SURVIVE have they NOT observed in those crazy beings called (let's say it one more time) CHILDREN do they not comprehend?

Children are NOT adults. DUH! Why even ASK such a STUPID question?

:wtf:

[Ian David]

1. It's been hardwired into our genes since our days of neolithic hunter-gatherers or longer

Since the dawn of Man, clans have kidnapped the women and children of rival factions, or won them as spoils of war.

[Cass]

2. I don't watch that show but I'm very disappointed and upset that

they thought this topic would be appropriate material for a tv show. This disgusting line of thought - that abducted children are somehow to blame for their victimization - began with that frigging Bill O'Reilly who made horrible comments about the boy who was kidnapped and held for years by his captor before being rescued recently. He should have been yanked off the air for those comments. IMO, anyone who would advance this line of argument is excusing, to a degree, the actions of child predators.

I'm with you, IdaBriggs, this line of questioning is so ridiculous and offensive that its absurd to even think of including it in the national conversation.