[SoftballMominVA]

And this is why it's considered very poor discussion form to throw out a blanket statement such as "ADHD = Absent Dad/Husband Disorder" Any time you make a statement that includes everyone with one broad stroke, you lose the ability to move the discussion forward.

If what you meant to say was "in many cases kids are over-diagnosed because of a lack of discipline in the home brought on by over worked single mothers" you might have gotten quite a few people to agree - including myself. I teach special education children and more than once have I come across a kid with this diagnosis who only needed structure mixed with love.

ADHD is very, very real, whether you believe it or not. However, treatment of ADHD is controversial and varies from one person to the next and one medication to the next.

[donna]

Stop discussing me. If you don’t like what I post ignore it.

I believe: “ADHD = Absent Dad/Husband Disorder”

[commonguymd]

You are so disappointing as you minimize the affliction. Just like any affliction that categorizes our lives, and our society - you have proponents and distractors. The sad fact is that the proponents want to include everyone whereby I feel the distractors have it right - follow the money and engage the truly afflicted.

Sadly, everyone trying so hard to excuse normalcy in their lives and in their children’s lives fit the bill of a doctrine of medication, so much so, it becomes a psuedo religion of sorts.