“Well.” This was far from Gretchen’s first case dealing with children who displayed antisocial personality disorders. When the behavior escalated to the point of violence on the level of the Kent case, the parents, almost without exception, tried to hide it first. She’d asked a colleague about it once—confused as to why the parents wouldn’t be the first to hand over a child who must have been nothing but, at best, a headache, at worst, a nightmare. The colleague had shaken her head. “Loving children defies logic,” she’d said, and had left it at that like it was an explanation.
