If the prevalence of ADHD and other childhood developmental problems is rising in our society, it is not because of “bad parenting” but because the burgeoning stresses on the parenting environment appear to increase with each successive generation. Parents, and mothers in particular, are getting less and less of the support they need during their children’s early years. The issue is not one of individual parental failure but rather of a social and cultural breakdown of cataclysmic proportions.
