Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.
Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.
Kids in the entertainment industry are at a risk of developing depression, as they see glamour at an early age.
Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.
There's something in this country that is so opposed to understanding the complexity of children.
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
Children are f - king crazy. They're also suicidal.
There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.
