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Spectrum Institute is a nonprofit organization incorporated in California in 1987. The corporation has tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
From 1987 through 1999, the primary focus of
the organization was to protect personal privacy and to promote respect
for family diversity. This mission was accomplished by conducting
public policy studies, filing legal briefs in landmark litigation,
participating in academic and professional conferences, testifying at
legislative hearings, and educating the public by working with television
and radio producers as well as journalists and reporters. | ||||
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In 1999, the organization broadened the focus
of its mission to specifically include advocacy for equality and fairness for unmarried and single Americans, as
workers, consumers, taxpayers, and voters. A special division of the
organization, the American Association for Single People, was
created for this purpose. Thousands of Americans have joined AASP and
have been supporting its work by making donations to the organization.
The name of this division was later changed to Unmarried America. | ||||
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In 2005, a new division of Spectrum Institute,
known as the Emancipation Project, was being launched. Its
mission was to liberate minors from abuse. The Project has a special
focus on the needs of juveniles who are abducted, transported to, confined
in, and subjected to forced mental reprogramming in privately owned
residential facilities. Each year, thousands of troubled teenagers
are sent to such facilities, without due process of law by their parents.
Some of the parents are well-intentioned but many have themselves been
abusive to their children.
Unfortunately, a widespread pattern of human rights violations and abusive
practices
have been reported at many of these detention centers.
The Emancipation Project worked to stop these abuses, regulate this
industry, promote positive alternatives, and empower survivors with
legal remedies. | ||||
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