I’ve almost become inured to the number of kids under the age of 20 who have come through my hospitals psych unit. I ask the staff why.
The one answer I get is: “Parents’’.
It's not just kids or hospitals ...any facility housing or caring for mental patients risks getting injured by the patients.
My sister was refused sedatives while a dastardly brain disease ate away any ability whatsoever to control her raging violent behavior.... But laws now on sedating patients would not permit them to sedate her even though she had hit other patients, grabbed and injured staff, and also visiting family members. She had a most miserable existence....and so did those caring for her.
It was not until she stopped eating and was in the death thros they finally sedated her. Trust me we called commissioners, politicians, owners of the facility to no avail. It was well beyond heartbreaking.