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Originally Posted by Patriam1066
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Kids can’t refuse anything. This is ridiculous
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Legally their parents decide on their medical and mental health treatment, but that’s on paper
If a parent wants a child to get counseling, and a child refuses, let’s explore this. How does the parent get them there? Assuming this is a teenager, does the parent tie them up, hands and feet and drag them to the car? Maybe two parents hog tie the teen then lift them on each side like police due for a violent uncooperative adult?
Speaking of police, they won’t restrain kids unless the kid is an immediate and serious danger to themselves or others. They won’t restrain them to bring them to a hospital, they won’t restrain them to bring them to school. They won’t even restrain them to bring them to a behavioral health hospital. A kid can tell a police officer they plan to kill themselves that day, and unless they are in the actual physical act of it, the cop cannot touch them. There is too much liability for them to restrain kids. A kid breaking the law past curfew can be corralled and returned home by a cop, that’s about the extent of their help
But let’s say the parent magically teleports the uncooperative kid to the counselor’s office. How exactly do you get the kid to talk? Does the counselor stick their hand up the kid’s ass and move their mouth like a puppet? Does the counselor begin to torture them, maybe waterboard them a little like they are a prisoner of war?
A kid can’t LEGALLY refuse a lot of things, until it comes time to enforce that rule. THEN, the kid can actually refuse almost everything