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This is a good explanation of why the study should be dustbined as another problematic effort to scapegoat parents for their children's mental health challenges

This is a good explanation of why the study should be dustbined as another problematic effort to scapegoat parents for their children's mental health challenges. Like "refrigerator mothers" as a 1950s cause of autism.[1] And now, thanks to this study, every parent of an ADHD child can likewise feel doubt and experience a dose of finger-wagging from self-annointed servants of public. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator_mother_theory

ithkuil 3y ago
My take-away from the study wasn't that ADHD is caused by bad parenting, but that when parents are faced with challenging children and they behave poorly, they make things worse. Is that controversial? Should you as a parent just mistreat your children because they are exhausting you? Some may thing that perhaps acting tough on those kids will somehow solve the problem, but hey you'll just make things worse. Is that framing blaming the parents? I don't think so; I think the parallel with the refrigerator mother is just an emotional reaction on something that is only superficially similar