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I think it's aided by parents who don't want to deal with bad behavior.

More parents are spending the majority of their time working, so when they get home and little Tammy and Jonny have just spent 8-10 hours in a rambuncious day care, little Tammy and Jonny have energy to expell and attention they crave from Mom and Dad.

However, Mom and Dad are stressed from long hours at work to pay for the outrageously expensive house and SUV they've enslaved their life to pay for, so they don't want to deal with hyper Tammy and Jonny.

Enter Dr. Pharmesuetical. He says Tammy and Jonny are ADHD and some magic pills will calm them down. Wallah...Tammy and Jonny get drugged. Now Tammy and Jonny aren't corrected for their behavior so they have a built in excuse to be wild. Tammy and Jonny also learn...if you feel stressed take drugs.

What a great future we're headed for when these drug dependant kids need to take up the slack and support America. UGH!

You have good points, but in my case, none of them are true. I stayed at home with my daughter and didn't go to work until her sister was in kindergarten (she was in 2nd then). We lived in the country on several acres where did could and did run around and play. We provided structure, church, daily Bible readings, everything one would think would be necessary to set her up right. I actually did homeschool her briefly (about 4 months) and I saw that it wasn't me, it wasn't the teacher, it was her. Everything else worked with her sister, who is a straight A student, Varsity athlete and the 12th ranked french horn in the state of Virginia (yeah, proud mom alert there) Kids are just wired differently.

All that being said, I have heard of vastly different situations where the doctor took 10 minutes with the parent, and handed over a prescription. I have to doubt those situations.

"Tammy and Jonny also learn...if you feel stressed take drugs."

Yeah, that's the downside with this whole meds thing. It's teaching drug dependence for a whole generation of people.