Peter Hitchens writes:
A shocking £31million is spent each year on prescriptions for powerful mind-altering drugs given to children with the fictional complaint called ADHD.
This should stop immediately, as should the large payments of Disability Living Allowance to many of the families involved.
There is no objective diagnosis for 'ADHD', a complaint invented by psychiatrists and drug companies.
Its alleged 'symptoms' are felt not by supposed patients but by exasperated adults trying to cope with boys (it's mainly boys) who get too little exercise, sleep and authority, watch too much TV, play too many computer games, eat and drink junk food and are then forced to endure school lessons of crushing boredom conducted by women who don't understand small boys.
I continue to be amazed all the 'Bad Science' gurus have not turned their searchlights on this fantasy.
And:
The contraceptive pill is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary in this country. I think future generations will be amazed that any women were prepared to take it.
No man would swallow something that had a comparably devastating effect on his reproductive organs.
Mostly for being born boys rather than the girls wanted and expected by their mothers (more and more of whom in any case know little or nothing about men or boys), half a million British children are now drugged up to their eyeballs with Ritalin and such like as "treatment" for ADHD and various other non-existent conditions.
Having long since decided that femaleness, simply in itself, was a medicable condition requiring the pumping of women's and girls' bodies full of highly poisonous substances in order to stop those bodies from doing what they do naturally, we now seem to have decided to treat maleness in the same way, and to get in even younger than we did with femaleness.
Meanwhile, prisoners are to be tested routinely for ADHD, if that is not already happening. Criminal behaviour is to be, or is being, defined as a manifestation of ADHD. Why else bother testing prisoners, in particular and as such, for it? So they will all be found to have it. But they don't have it. No one has it. It does not exist.
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I agree completely. This whole ADHD phenomenon is part of the pathologization of the full spectrum of human behavior. And Peter Hitchens is correct about children not getting enough exercise and playing too many video games and watching too much TV.
ReplyDeleteI would add that this is partly because too many mothers are in the workforce today, the unhappy result of the combined influence of radical feminism and neoliberal capitalism, a marriage made in hell if there ever was one.
While I don’t want to down play personal responsibility too much, I have seen how harried working mothers just plop their kids in front of a TV or video game with a bag of potato chips so she can go work.
Now this might sound radical, but perhaps it is time for the State to step in with a direct payment to mothers, a kind of Motherhood Dividend. My theory is that since mothers do not have their contributions to society recognized by the market (no market transaction to add to GDP figures) even though they do the same work as “childcare professionals,” why not use the command function of the State to recognize what the market does not?
Also, another way of solving this problem is to promote high incomes for male workers. Perhaps we can have a combination of such policies.
Sorry to go off topic.
"Remuneration for work must be sufficient for establishing and maintaining a family with dignity, either through a suitable salary, called a "family wage," or through other social measures such as family allowances or the remuneration of the work in the home of one of the parents; it should be such that mothers will not be obliged to work outside the home to the detriment of family life and especially of the education of the children. The work of the mother in the home must be recognized and respected because of its value for the family and for society.
ReplyDelete(Pontifical Council for the Family, Charter of the Rights of the Family, 1983.)