years 2008 to 2011, 127 cases concerned children and adolescents according to Para. 1631b German Civil Code, and 249 procedures were settled either by dismissal, withdrawal or by repealing the initial decision to place the child with restrain or seclusion by means of an interim order or by filing an appeal against the final decision. Of the 127 procedures, 68 concerned girls, who were on average slightly younger than boys (14.5 years vs. 15.1 years). In two thirds of the procedures, the children and adolescents were German citizens. The majority of youths involved were living at home at the time of the procedure, but in 15 % of the case the youths were homeless. Most of the adolescents were treated with restraint in child and adolescent psychiatry. TheI have spent all
but the first five years of my life in Wisconsin. I came from
Kansas with my parents and one sister. We lived in Smith County
Kansas, which is listed as the center county of the United States.
We came in covered wagons and it took about four weeks to make the
trip. Now we make it in about fourteen or fifteen hours.

I have one
brother, who was born in Wisconsin. He is interested in education
and has spent his life in the teaching profession.

Wen we first came
to Wisconsin the principal source of income was made by working in
the logging camps in winter and saw mills in the summer.

My father owned a
farm, not much of it clear of trees and stumps, but all the time he
had at home, for he too worked