Contemporary Family Law – Stories have been repeated in the media over and over again describing youth, some as young as seven, often awakened from bed in the middle of the night, taken by two large men by force or the threat thereof, while their family stands aside observing. These youths are then shipped thousands of miles away, destined to spend much of their childhood engaged in compulsory, hard labor without pay and “therapy” amounting to little more than re-education type of psychological abuse, under the guise of treatment or discipline by sadistic, sometimes violent, staff. While the aforementioned description is one most commonly associated with a draconian prison camp, what is actually being described is the fate of youths whose parents, desperate to find help for their “troubled teen,” were convinced to send their unwilling child to a tough-love programs run by U.S. nationals and marketed as wilderness camps, therapeutic boarding schools, and behavior modification programs. Many of these programs are located within the U.S. where they are subject to very little oversight or regulation.