I agree that many liberals detest southern culture; however, this is one of those limited times where children are essentially minimum security prisoners.
Before I referred to them as to a great extent chattel of their parents. There is a thriving industry, seldom talked about, where parents can essentially have their problematic children, by whatever standard the parents use, institutionalized with bogus medical diagnoses, until the insurance runs out, the parents want to stop paying, or the children turn 18. At which point they will be declared as “fine”, and kicked out.
It is brutal and nasty. While the children are there, they have no right to a Habeus Corpus hearing before a judge, or to seek emancipation, and with parental agreement, they can be drugged or otherwise coerced including confinement to padded cells.
The level of bitter, burning hate in both directions is impressive. But that such a thing is legal in the US gives some indication of how serious parental authority can be.