[workerbee]

Not every case is "no father", or "abuse" or any of the other things. Sometimes there are mental problems that just are, even in children. It's sad that the overreaction/excuses to too many situations that truly are just poor discipline or bad upbringing have hardened us to real cases of mental illness.

[MrNeutron1962]

Very true, My own soon to be 20 year old son is institutionalized at the moment. He is schizophrenic, which started to show itself around age 15. It was an epic legal battle to get him there, but we started before he turned 18.

This condition runs in my family, he has a cousin that is also schizophrenic, and there were at least three others in my mothers generation.