It isn't that complicated of a question at all. Take a moment to visualize the troubled teen industry as a swarm of flesh eating killer wasps. You as the exterminator are equipped with a limited amount of equipment, time, and ability to contain the wasps. You'll do you best to keep the infestation under control, but in the end the wasps will thrive and end up eating the exterminator's flesh.
The torturer for hire industry thrives because the government does not have the man power to effectively regulate an industry that has grown to the size it has. It never has been able to, it never will be able to, and in the end the government's best efforts will simply add up to a pile of jack shit. Try to think back and name one industry the government has properly regulated.
Did the manage well with prohibition?
How about the savings and loans industry?
This latest government fiasco with the subprime whatever it is?
God help me, but just how is the war on drugs going?
btw.. don't ignore the fact the torturer for hire industry also thrives because a huge market exists for it as well.
With so many of these programs and an limited government ability to effectively deal with them the call for regulation equates the supporting of child abuse. Let me repeat that for those of you who don't like it when I'm being a hardass, supporting the regulation of this industry is supporting child abuse. You might not be out there abusing kids yourself, and certainly you might not want it to happen. But, the end result is the drive for regulation makes these programs legitimate in the eyes of dumb motherfucking parents who ought to be fucking skull fucked to death.
The only real option is for the organized push for total abolishment. It will take longer, it will be a harder fight, but it can be won.
Maybe not by the pussies that call themselves advocaidiots, but others who truly give a damn.