I’ve studied this troubled teen industry thing for over a year now.
Over half were adopted kids and the parents are “rehoming” them. Now that is not all of the kids but that is a lot of them. These are children they would not have had as babies or “very young”. Some adopted from other countries.
I can believe that...I’m just thinking of fellow FReepers who might have wives that read too many ‘Child Rearing’ books and really believe that ‘timeouts’ works.
For the many cases not as clean, it does get far more complicated.
The troubled adopted/fostered child and teen is very real.
Removing them to therapeutic foster homes or institutions is a real option.