I’ve seen a few crazy kids in the younger years and it is seriously alarming. Meds can work, but in the long term, they can be a band-aid solution that results in the time-bomb we just witnessed.
There are great parents and teachers that try and cope with these children and there are no easy answers but -isolation to a mental health center or reform school.
These kids can destroy the normal lives of their siblings, parents and school classmates when they are mainstreamed.
While there has always been a tiny percent of the population that suffers from mental illness, the proportion has increased steadily with the advent of parents indulging in recreational drugs during pregnancy.
Parents that are taking all sorts of drugs whether legal or illegal are likely altering there genetic code passed along to their offspring. And if the mother is a drug addict while pregnant, particularly in the early months, the resulting infant’s brain may develop miswired.
I’ve known three parents that adopted newborns from druggie mothers and initially they appeared to be really cute looking little kids. However, all have been a horrible handful requiring 10X the amount of attention and interventions than the rest of their brood. It’s unclear whether the brain can eventually rewire itself towards normalcy as these kids matured to adults.
I adopted a child from a druggie mother, right out of the box and still wet.
She is 6 now and a handful, and I wonder how much of that is genetic. She requires a strong hand.
I still know the birth mom, who recently stopped using meth, and who has 2 previous children by two different fathers who did time in 2 different prisons.
Needless to say that those 2 kids are on a career path to loser town. In fact, their fate has been sealed by now. It is too late to help them.