Health, I like the theory of abuse and actually there are a lot of professionals who agree to this hypothesis.
Wo, are we in BIG trouble as a community!
With growing numbers of OTD kids and “orthoprax” kids/adults who are essentially OTD as well (percentage of cases per age group is frightening and increasing), if your supposition is true, and abuse is the chief cause of going OTD, we have to quickly evaluate and reeducate all our children before they become parents and inflict the same damage on their children. They say abuse is a continuous pattern in families. If there’s that much abuse going on in our community (youre saying that every OTD case is a direct result of and therefore goes hand in hand with abusive parenting or Chinuch), we as a community need very serious problem solving in all areas. Its an emergency! How can anyone be proud to be part of a community with regularly increasing cases of abuse/OTD? It might not be me or you, but its our relatives, friends and neighbors, is it not?
Whatever bothers you more, the OTD statistics or the abuse statistics-which you claim are one and the same, it’s stemming from our community and we’d better do something about it really quickly!