Problem Children: It's Not Always the Parent's Fault

Parents are often blamed for causing their children's problems, regardless of the age of the child or the number of "good children" that the parents have raised in addition to the "problem child." As a result of this bias against parents, especially when the bias is propagated by those in the so-called helping professions, efforts to help problem children often fail.

Even worse, parents sometimes choose not to seek treatment because they can predict that, regardless of their choice of helpin...