Adolescent development isn't "kool" since they found out none of their studies on interventions validated. Buuut they still do on young children. Tabula Rasa springs eternal.

Hence why all those intervention studies try reaaaaaaaaaal hard to never longitudinally check beyond childhood.

And anyone who does realizes interventions do nothing.

Also, it's my general sense that people _hate_ teenagers.

Yeah I... learned that the hard way during 'rehab center' internships and a couple youth ministry groups that served as forced counseling for local juvies.

Any wonder teenagers hate the world. Everyone hates them by default.

Told outright we weren't there to "fix" anyone, only to manage them.

It's pretty despicable how we treat adolescents.

Yeah, makes good sense why they've got a chip on their shoulders about it.

Anyone would, treated with such neglect or, even worse, dismissal.

"Oh, you're learning how to figure out the world? Fuck off until you do"

_So helpful_

I can at least say, up until 2012, neglect is the modus operandi for how to deal with "criminals" and "recidivists" under 18.

Well, that and the rape.

Lots of that going on.

But as long as men are the ones being raped, who cares?

Yeah, that's strictly off-limits and a catch-22 for the clinic.

Highest rape stats in the nation aren't prison. It's Juvie.

Yep.

That's the sick thing: Prisoners have recourse to the law.

The law rolls its eyes at teenagers.

And if the clinics don't address it, it festers. If they do, the clinic will be pulled from the roster of places for kids to go when they're booted back out.

The law would have to look at teenagers to roll its eyes at them, might be more accurate.

I suspect more than several mysterious shank implements have been introduced to rape victims by someone's under-the-table idea of "fixing" the problem without reporting it.

Knew more than a few kids with known histories of parental abuse, immediately returned home on house arrest.

Fixes two problems, right? Who cares if the criminal gets more time, right?

I know how this shit works. And there's a reason I have zero respect for the law.

Yep; patch the pipe. No one cares if the water's clean, stop the leak and move on.

You also see a lot of victims of Munchausen's by proxy.

"He's crazy. No really."

And how does a _not_ crazy teenager prove his _mother_ is the insane one? He doesn't.

He's never given the chance.

If he tries, well, he's a narcissist who thinks he's superior to his poor innocent mother.

Lots of very bad "psychiatrists" on government pay.

That was both common and explicitly unaddressed. And at the time I would have had something approaching a "professional" capacity to deal with it, I was a psych student who had no clue what to practically look for.

I do. And I want to burn the industry to the ground.

You're actually still in?

HELL no. I saw the product, I talked to them, I _listened_ and investigated.

And NOPED right the fuck off that idea.

I do not think, one instant, that any fucker who works in those facilities is a good person.

They're all power craving lunatics who want easy ways to abuse power and justify their superiority.