Statistics On Teenage Depression?
Q: During pregnancy a medical person, typically a GP or obstetrician,
reviews the medical notes of the mother, and finds `indicants' of
future problems, such as depression, teenage self-harm, or personality
disorder (notably borderline), or having about three or more children,
especially if close in age.
A:The initial hearing results in the appointment of several expert
psychiatric or psychological witnesses, each with their own eccentric
pet theories. They argue in court and outside, leading to further
hearings and extra experts. After five years the psychiatric model is
eventually arrived at and configured vaguely to fit the particular
case, and will consist of one or more of the following factors: (i)
the mother suffers from depression, anxiety, or borderline, and makes
false allegations against the father (ii) the father suffers from
anti-social personality disorder, obsessive compulsive personality
disorder (iii) the grandparents had a history of eccentric behaviour
and abused one or both parents in the 1960s. All this is based on
evidence of the parents' behaviour after the removal of the children,
or previously confidential medical or social records. Social Services
will either assert that `the abuser becomes the abuser', even though
there is no evidence of abuse, or will assert their statutory right to
maintain targets for adoptions (especially same sex parents). The
`target argument' DOES take place in court.
We have more and more children coming from broken homes, single
mothers and so on. Why of all groups, is the government apparently
acting