Back in the day, before they were closed a lot of them had gotten very bad. No over site or enforcing some kind of regulations had turned them into hell holes.
A lot of them were very old, warn down and the staff that worked there? The staff were all Mildred Ratched on acid.
I can understand your friends concern and wanting to shut them down. What I can’t understand is why they threw out the baby with the bathwater and didn’t try to improve the situation.
Then again there was no internet back then. When not if abuse happened in those places there was really not much in getting the word out and making change. Now there are sites like Reddit and expose everything. If something would happen people would raise hell and the lawsuits would fly.
Thank you. Good analysis. I fear I’m a rose-colored glasses type. If I’m not hearing bad stories, I’m assuming all is good. But you’re right about the missing, wet child.
There seems to be a tendency on many people’s part to look at one slice clearly, then put on blinders to the viewpoints from other angles. A focus on intentional cruelty and an inability to redress the right of people who can perform close to normal when properly supported with medication and psychiatry means that they ignore what happens to those “could be” normals when they become responsible for their own medication and responsibility to continue counseling. Britney Spears comes to mind.