Becca72; "The parents have to sign a form giving their children permission to be treated in the clinic for ANYTHING. Once in the clinic the children and healthcare providers don't need to tell the parents what the kids are there for"

I'd find that a bit alarming. I think clinics should not have carte blanche to treat kids for anything without informing their parents. It sounds a bit like those competition forms in some countries that ask compeitors to tick a box asking if they agree to be contacted by the company in future. Of course, it's for marekting spam, but if you don't tivck the box, they cliam they can't contact you to inform you if you've won the competition either. It's worth remembering that in all the main totalitarian regimes, Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Hitler Youth, Pol Pot's Cambodia, etc., the state targeted children, weaning them away from their parents, trying to step into their place, undermine the parents. They wanted to make the state, and not the family, the first stop ofm loyalty for the children.