Oh, yes, they can, and they do it all the time. Kids can be locked up on any pretext whatsoever, and thanks to the Supreme Court decision in Parham vs JR, they have no legal recourse whatsoever.
Of course, there has to be an excuse, and this is where the diagnoses come in; "reactive problem of childhood", "oppositional defiant disorder", etc., etc. The shrink knows what is really going on, and so do the parents, but the official word has to be that the kid is a risk to self or others or will deteriorate without treatment (mind control, physical and emotional abuse, drugs, and electroshock, among other things).
Children have been locked up for everything from wearing pentagrams or spraypainting graffiti to being gay or getting bad grades. It's for his own good, after all!
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Date: 2006-03-29 06:14 am (UTC)Of course, there has to be an excuse, and this is where the diagnoses come in; "reactive problem of childhood", "oppositional defiant disorder", etc., etc. The shrink knows what is really going on, and so do the parents, but the official word has to be that the kid is a risk to self or others or will deteriorate without treatment (mind control, physical and emotional abuse, drugs, and electroshock, among other things).
Children have been locked up for everything from wearing pentagrams or spraypainting graffiti to being gay or getting bad grades. It's for his own good, after all!