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Dr. Wendy Walsh: The scenarios are tragic and heartbreaking. Imagine this: A middle schooler is being bullied at school because of his emerging sexual orientation, but he can't tell his parents because their religious beliefs may make them punish him more. And he can't talk to a counselor without his parents' consent. Or this: A 12-year-old girl is being sexually molested by her mom's boyfriend and her mother is both blinded by her love for the perpetrator and financially dependent on him. And the girl can't breathe a word of the crime to her school psychologist without getting her mom to agree. Or this: A child of drug-addicted parents runs away and becomes homeless. At 14, after living on the street for two years, his life is so dismal that he contemplates suicide. A social services agency finds him and wants to intervene. But they can't until they track down the deadbeat parents and get their permission.
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To Eric Potter, M.D.
The fact that adolescents aren’t given the benefit of even speaking to the school counselor is an affront to the rights of the only people we are all supposed to care about: the children. Guidance counselors often end up hearing the problems of their charges. There is no significant difference. Parents do not have the right to monitor what their children are thinking, and the ability for children to seek out help from a responsible adult figure is their right over their body. And, for once, this right means that they will be seeking help for themselves instead of destroying their lives.
My best friends father believed that bipolarism was a fake disorder. So when her mother got her on medication, he flushed her drugs nearly a month and a half into her use of the drugs. She didn’t get out of bed for two weeks.
What if your child killed themselves because they didn’t feel comfortable confiding in you and they had no where else to go? What if a parent didn’t believe in modern medicine at all and let their child die of leukemia while seeking the help of “God”?
Parent’s job is to take care of their children. If they fail, we take thier children away. If you continue to fail your children when it comes to their mental health, then the child should have a right to amend the issue.
I volunteer for a year on a mental health hotline and I know that in my state (MD) there is a special phone number just for kids to call in on. They can call about anything that they need to talk about. I had to go to the local schools and pass out the hotline cards to the school counselors so they could pass them out to all the students. I know for a fact that the school counselor at my children school didn’t do it b/c I also volunteered at their school every week to fill the weekly folder to go home and these cards never made it to the classrooms so they could go home with the students. At the end of the school year, the cards were still sitting on the counselor desk. What a shame.
Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface. But sometimes, there’s a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
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I don’t agree with it, thanks are in order for making the effort to write it down
Hello,
At first, I was hopeful that this article would highlight the absurdity of the attack on parental rights which is growing in our nation. Instead, I am very dissappointed to hear the same rhetoric from those who proclaim the great need for children to be protected by the government. The most egregious examples are set on a pedestal for all to gawk at while completely ignoring the potential harm that may result from children receiving counsel in direct contradiction to their family’s beliefs. Children are trained to distrust their parents instructions.
For anyone who believes that the government or its experts will “care” for our children, you are sadly mistaken. Pediatricians and social workers don’t get the 2am call for the emergency from their teen, parents do. How sad when parents find out that their child has been receiving poor counsel without their knowledge. The parents should be kept in the loop, even if they have not done the best job of communicating. Don’t harm 100% of families for the sake of a small percentage.
Sincerely,
Eric Potter MD