Source: Brownstone Institute
by Cooper Davis & Jeffrey Lacasse
“How would your child score on a common mental health screening? A mental health professional might view the results and conclude that your child has a mental health problem … that needs to be psychiatrically diagnosed and treated, even medicated. Will this help your child thrive? Or will it reshape their identity in undesirable ways? Will you be comfortable with your child taking medications that alter their developing brains and could perturb their sexuality? When your child reaches adulthood, will they be able to withdraw from these drugs, or will they despair to find out that their body and brain have adapted to them, making this difficult or maybe even impossible? For any parent with even minor reservations about our current medical and mental health system, these aren’t theoretical questions. A new public policy has just made them very salient.” (08/21/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/beware-universal-mental-health-screening/