Oversharing child's mental health issues on social media

You might have good intentions but mind your own business. You use the words “my impression”, “is clearly linked to”, “seems to stem from”, and you are judging the parent for the behaviour of “oversharing on social media” and also “what if the teen sees this one day”. There is no crime here, and no direct evidence that she is actually harming her child, just a parenting style you don’t like. Let me also emphasize it’s her child. I too despise when parents overshare about their kids on social media because it can be dangerous to share so much publicly, but quite frankly it’s legal to do so, even to share diagnoses and illnesses. Based on the language you used, you don’t actually see a crime here. Are you perhaps projecting your impressions onto a situation you actually don’t know about, and have you actually witnessed illegal abuse that endangers the child’s health? As a teenager, the parents are still legal guardians. They don’t have “confidentially” from them.

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