I already know all of this, thanks. By being ‘forced’ to belt, I meant getting a bad teacher who doesn’t know how to use the throat muscles correctly. I’m a musician, too, not just my daughter, and I would say that, sadly, both in popular styles and Classical, truly good voice teachers are the exception, not the rule. Just because someone can do it, doesn’t mean they know how to teach it, and the voice is the most difficult to teach (more than dancing, acting, or any other instrument).