Great to be one of the doctors that gets the bed filled and paid for "for a reason". An invalid reason, but very valid money. People forget who these studies ar

Great to be one of the doctors that gets the bed filled and paid for "for a reason". An invalid reason, but very valid money. People forget who these studies are for, to "help make policy", but really to help practitioners. The purpose of these papers is: firstly to justify the existence of these professions and institutions, to get more money to their initiatives. The purpose is not to protect or help children. You can tell by the content of studies in this field. They are always about detection. "Customer" acquisition. Throwing more kids into the system. However the child protection systems ... don't protect children very well. Not so long ago there was an article on this site "We are sending more foster children to prison than to college". https://web.archive.org/web/20210321010610/https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html https://web.archive.org/web/20210321010610/https://www.kansa... There are many articles that observe that psychiatric treatment of suicidal kids, and adults for that matter, actually increases the odds they die through suicide instead of reducing it. Which makes putting more people into these situations, will cause more death (and a lot more misery). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5710249/ Clearly anyone who had the welfare of kids in mind would only ever want any action taken that would improve the situation of the child, and would absolutely refuse to act if it didn't. But we know very well if these treatments help or not. They don't. Therefore any policy that actually seeks to help children would massively reduce children going into the system to the cases that are absolutely unavoidable, and would prevent any expansion of the system until they are very sure kids do well in this system. These people don't just don't do that, they actively advocate for more resources TAKEN AWAY from caring for these children, and going into finding more of these children to be treated. That tells you that not only do they not care at all about children's welfare, but they're willing to make children's situations worse to advance other goals. And that should be a very strong reason to tell them to go away, and never come back.