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Oprah will investigate study abroad programs.

2/25/2010

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There has been too little information about the the risk and legal liability following institutions and students on study abroad programs. 

In the United States alone - each year, more than a quarter million U.S. students leave the safety and security of their families and country to travel to study abroad programs. 

Those students, families and universities will continue to struggle with the result from the Amanda Knox trial and verdict. Here is a link to the Oprah show. Knox became victim of a criminal prosecutor now sentenced to 1 year and 4 months for abuse of power.

For Danes we have the Camilla Broe case showing us that the political environment in our old country sometime can mean a destroyed life if you choose to stay and help the police rather than fleeing home with the first plane the minute you learn of a crime in the community you enter abroad.

Most people in the United Kingdom can remember how Woodward became victim of forensic research not quite developed to exonerate her of a crime at her host familiy.

It is good that the dangers of leaving your own country can be public knowledge. A huge part of the problem is that there is too much focus on profit among the travel agencies. Maybe Oprah investigation will bring result in more independent information available for the future exchange students and their familiies so tragedies can be prevented.
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New case telling the typical story of how complaints are dealth with

10/18/2009

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Today the newspaper BT tells how a 16 year old female student was locked up by her exchange student family.

Both the complaints of the girl and her mother were not taken serious. She had no other choice but to return home.

Most exchange students would not have the courage to contact their parents back home. After all the parents pay for the exchange student experience and the students are well-behaved children who are grateful for the aid the parents have provided them, so they would be shameful if they have to report home what they are not happy. So they remain in silence when they experience something which could be close to abuse compared to the conditions they live by in Denmark.

She wasn't allowed to leave the home in her first host family and the son in the host family began to make inappropriate moves against her. It seems as she has forgotten what country she entered. We have to remember that the lifestyle Danish teenagers live - even the best-behaved would have meant that they would end up in a therapeutic boarding school, private boot camp or a wilderness therapy program, if they were born in the United States.

Over there in many states girls stay home until they are married and they have a different approach when we are talking teenage marriages and pregnancies. There are no question about that the host family was a host family because they had a son which most likely was hard to sell on the marriage marked and having a exchange student in the house was just an act to secure a candidate so their son could have a relationship.

The conditions in the second family were just a consequence of her acting up in the first family. Even the third family was warned against her Danish manners.

I think that it is good that she ended up leaving for home, but it clearly shows that Danish families should refrain from sending their children to other countries as exchange students.

Sad to say: There is nothing new or extraordinary about her story. If you research the area you will find hundred of stories like hers.

More info: 16-årige Amanda hjem fra mareridt 

 
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