For the most part, universities cannot tell parents about their children’s problems without the student’s consent. They cannot release any information in a student’s medical record without consent. And they cannot put students on involuntary medical leave, just because they develop a serious mental illness.
I find it extremely interesting that the Liberals are such hypocrites that they can’t see themselves in what they say. Who got these laws passed? Who is against parental rights? Who got all the mentally ill released and put on the streets? Who is it that proposes that mentally ill be protected by these laws in ALL circumstance?
“Who is against parental rights?”
I don’t know if this is an example of parental rights. College students are adults, and as adults, they have a right to keep their personal affairs private. They have the option to include their parents or not. I believe this is as it should be.
Not all families are positive. Not all parents are mature, healthy and competent. This is not a politically determined opinion, it is a fact and such families are not rare.
The laws that released the mentally ill from institutions were incremental and politically determined. The progressives can now deal with the unintended consequences, but R D Laing and Thomas Szasz bear a lot of the blame. Laing is dead, but IIRC, Szasz is still around, yet I never see his name in the news and AFAIK, no one has thought to ask him about any of this, which is, of course, convenient.