Should be called Assembly Bill 666
From article
A California legislative proposal that its sponsor says will increase mental health services for children is being attacked by its opponents as “state-sanctioned kidnapping.”
Democratic Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo said her bill fixes an issue that denies poor kids on the state’s Medi-Cal insurance plan the same coverage as other children.
“[Assembly Bill] 665 is about making sure all young people, regardless if they have private health insurance or are Medi-Cal recipients, have access to mental health resources,” Carrillo said, according to the Sierra Sun Times.
But along the way, parents could become spectators to the treatment of their children.
AB 665 requires “the professional person treating or counseling the minor to consult with the minor before determining whether involvement of the minor’s parent or guardian would be inappropriate.”
The bill allows children as young as 12 to “consent to mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services” if they present a danger to themselves or others or are alleged victims of abuse.
“A professional person offering residential shelter services … shall make their best efforts to notify the parent or guardian of the provision of services,” the bill says.
The bill says parents should be involved “unless … the professional person who is treating or counseling the minor, after consulting with the minor, determines that the involvement would be inappropriate.”
Among the state-approved professionals who could decide what a child needs are credentialed school psychologists.
The group Our Duty has staked out the position that the bill amounts to “state-sanctioned kidnapping,” according to the Post Millennial.
Erin Friday, co-leader of Our Duty, said that if a girl were to tell a counselor that she is a boy, the law could be used to send the child to an “LGBTQ housing facility.”
“The parents will have no idea what happened to their child. … Imagine their fear and anxiety. These parents are criminalized without an accusation, evidence or trial,” Friday wrote in a letter to legislators.
Friday said that under AB 665, “California can steal all of the rights of the parents, and hand over medical and mental health decisions to a child who we do not entrust with any other major decision.”
“These bills are all couched in protecting children from suicide but the opposite results occur when you destabilize them by reinforcing the baseless accusations that a child’s loving parents do not have their best interest in mind,” she said.
Okay let me say therapy isn't bad. What it is currently? Yes that shit is horrid. When I went to therapy as a teenager in high school, they never confirmed my beliefs. NOW THEY DO AND THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! From what I remember, all it was, was for me to be able to understand why I feel this way and how I shouldn't feel this way. They never told me I was right, they never gave me their point of view on things. They just helped me go though the process of my trauma and how to overcome it. BUT NOW? NOW, INSTEAD OF THEM LISTENING TO YOU AND HELPING YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS, THESE FUCKERS GIVE YOU "ADVICE" LIKE A STUPID LIFE CAOCH AND BECOME YOUR "FRIEND" TO MAKE IT EASIER TO MANIPULATE YOU! THEY INFILTRATED MENTAL HEALTH AND NOW WE HAVE THIS SHITTY PROBLEM. MAKES SENSE CONSIDERING MOST OF THESE LIBTARDS ALWAYS GO TO PSYCHOLOGY DEGREES 🤬 😮💨. It always bugs me when you guys shit on therapy but it's understandable. It was never like this when I went which is one of the reasons I don't go anymore.
Edit: Also to add, I'm in CA, so I KNOW FROM FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE IT WASN'T ALWAYS LIKE THIS😡
Understood, glad you got something good out of it before escaping what it was turned into. And it was turned into this on purpose, no doubt about it.
We will need to rebuild a lot of things, especially the entire mental health system. Your experience and knowledge can be incredibly helpful toward that end; maybe put some of your thoughts down and consider a substack? Talk about how it was, how it could be, should be, and get that message out there, that it's fixable.