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.

It _attracts_ narcissists.

It _attracts_ people who abuse authority.

Because teenagers are the single most vulnerable population - and they know it.

Jesus, was about to say. I was fool enough to think that one degree of separation into 'private sector' clinics would help, but yeah; same folk, different clothing.

Hooooly shit no.

It's no better.

Oh, I know that now.

Once upon a time I almost did university with the intent of working to help people like that. Good for me I was smart enough to do investigating first. A lot of it.

Chose to major in mathematics instead.

But spent all my time doing psychology anyway.

Psychology has sort of rotted to the core. Lack of control and filtering.

There's no checks and balances against abuses of power and authority.