Also note that the main reason for such a high degree of so-called psychological disorders in kids is because acceptable behavior has been redefined.
Can't have boys being boys anymore.
The parents get paid if the kids get diagnosed.
That would be because their parents get government checks if they are diagnosed as “disabled.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411071/posts
In my neck of the woods (and surely elsewhere), there are hustlers who give lessons to kids, for a fee, on how to "fail" mental tests.
Don't discount that as one reason for the high numbers here.
I know a lot of people think that the shots we give our children for chicken poxs, etc are good, and it does drive down the diseases, but there are some reports out there that say this is also what is causing a lot of our children’s problems with disorders...it’s a very touchy subject, neither my children (4) nor my grandchildren (7) have seemed to have adverse problems, so I guess it’s up to how the people read the articles...
A big part of the problem is sugar and artificial ingredients in processed food as well as the T.V. shows they watch.
I would like to see the break down by race and ethnicity.
I was brought to my attention Asian kids never seem to have these problems.
This is right out of THX-1138
Screwed up kids are a reflection of our society going downhill. This country has had a majority of at least two if not three generations of morally bankrupt and poorly educated parents.
Also, I’ll bet that “lead researcher Jennifer Kaminski” gets a very nice salary and all kinds of benefits from the gubbermint. This is what they want to hear, so they can dig in further into childcare.
I wonder what proportion of the “mental illnesses” are actually kids with behavior problems caused by failure to discipline?
Liberals have long decried spanking for punishment, instead pushing the ideas of “time-out”, etc. I am not sure that the Dr. Spock recommendations for child-rearing were all that good, but he was influential on generations of parents.
Is a higher rate of behavior problems, diagnosed as “mental illness” the result?
Note: there are some true mental illnesses. The incidence of these should not vary from generation to generation—when they do (as with autism), changes in incidence of the disorder reflect changes in diagnostic criteria.
Throw God out of the country- or make it hard for God’s name and morality to be taught, then complain about godless children with psychological problems and anger issues and perverted affections-
This is the Frankenstein the left has so eagerly and enthusiastically created- now let’s not hear any whining from them as their monster turns on them
That’s crazy !!!
We SPANKED our kids, so no psychological or behavioral problems in our family.
“were less likely than others to have access to medical care”
Another ploy by the loony liberals call for more another safety net a.k.a. socialism also the researchers may want to take a look at the parents some folks shouldn’t breed.
The more students with disabilities, the fewer students to take the state achievement tests, thus helping the schools get an acceptable score. The parents profit by getting sizable government checks, and the schools get government subsidies to serve the special needs students while exempting them from testing. It is a mess, thanks to government bungling. There should be no federal government meddling in education.
Brain dysfunctions and all neurological conditions are way up. It reaches epidemic proportions. One in around 30 kids is on the autism spectrum: there is around one in each preschool class. Something is causing this. Yes, some are being found to be gene deletions etc. However, that doesn’t mean it is hereditary. Genetic differences can occur as mutations during embryo creation / pregnancy.
Yet the pediatric group in America is hoping pregnant women get MORE neurotoxic vaccines DURING pregnancy. Then the newborn infant gets hit up with many, many more.
Having a functioning brain is far higher a priority than avoiding measles or chicken pox.
Aside from the risks forced on babies by vaccines, plastics are highly suspect, as well as pesticides and other know neurotoxins. There have been studies that many young women who haven’t had babies yet have BPA and other plastics in their uterus already. That HAS to have an effect on the developing brain.
So many “food” items in the USA are laced with neurotoxins. Who knows what happens to embryos who meet up with these toxins in utero. Any artificial color harms the brain, as does MSG. These products are ubiquitous in American food products.
It’s not the parenting. It is much harder to parent kids with brain dysfunctions, even ADHD. Try not to blame the parents; that is blaming the victims.
The answer of course is for more homosexual parents. And, how about more sexual training in kindergarten? I know, how about more emphasis on gender confusion for toddlers!
We are destroying ourselves. We are rapidly descending into depravity. This is Romans 1 writ large.
The result of women drinking, smoking and using drugs just like men. Their eggs get damaged and their children suffer.
In 2009, in an article on people in Appalachia pulling kids out of literacy classes to make certain they kept SSDI payments for “disabled” kids, it reported that about 8% of kids in the lower class had some sort of learning disability / diagnosis.
I’m certain that rate is even higher, because of the money and benefits associated with it.