this discussion is inspired by a discussion in the "decaffeinated" forum, and this discussion is about institutionalized child abuse and what people did or did not do, or did or did not recognize as abuse, and how it all changed me and the other children around me. first a partial list of things the way international institutionalized that were "tools" of abuse all too often: Ephesians 6:1 that damned wooden spoon. all adults having absolute authority over all children. untrained a