A Canadian researcher on Monday called for an investigation into why children from broken marriages are twice as likely to be prescribed attention-deficit drugs as children whose parents remain together.
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*raises hand*
As a child of 2 divorces, whose father is on his third wife, I would like to offer some insight:
Children in broken homes are twice as likely to act out, twice as likely to act weird, and twice as likely to wish to god that someone would PLEASE pay attention to them. Because they have half the support that kids from "loving, two-parent families" have.
By my experience, anyway.
And kids who want attention and don't get it turn into annoying snots within a relatively short period of time. And then the parents think "oh god something's wrong" and the doctors see that the kids are obviously agitated and assume that it's ADHD.
This is not rocket science. They don't need research. They need to tell parents to not get all wrapped up in their own problems while forgetting that the kids are affected by the divorce, too.
Nicely put.
I do think the ADHD diagnosis is over used.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
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