HIGH RISK Children Without a Conscience by Dr. Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey

HIGH RISK Children Without a Conscience by Dr. Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey

The authors have composed and developed a magnificent book. The book revolves around the fact that how psychopaths are made and it issues a warning signal that is all about the making of a psychopath and warns that in the future our society shall have much larger number of such people preying on the rest of the population. However, to confirm this, any teacher can be asked who has been teaching at a school if the number of children has increased with serious behavioral problems. To confront such people, who are unreachable through appeals to reasoning, traditional or kindness psychotherapy will ultimately become a losing battle (Biase, 1995).

Anti-social personality types

The authors of this book made claims that insufficient and poor bonding of the new born is the key. McKelvey and Magid claim that if there is a hint of inadequate attachment, then the child's behavior results in violent, mistrustful, angry and resentful actions. Further, they say in the book that the major underlying reasons behind the children not developing a strong bonding is that mothers have increasingly started to do office jobs, divorce rate is strikingly on rise, quality care issues in day care centers, teenage girls are becoming mothers and children are being adopted in much later stage of their lives. Children who possess the following characteristics may tend to behave in a disturbed manner (Biase, 1995);

inability to give and receive affection

self-destructive behaviors

cruelty to others and animals

phoniness

abnormalities in eye contact

problems with stealing and hoarding

extreme control issues with authority

preoccupation with blood, fire and gore

lack of long-term friends

various types of learning disorders

crazy lying

In addition to this, McKelvey and Magid strongly believe that day care is not just a dilemma in the search for the suitable care; rather it has become a part of the big problem because young infants tend to have a strong negative impact upon the separation from the mother when they are left in day care. Not only the young infants, but also grown children have the similar thought that they are not getting adequate attention. The researchers have also investigated and came to a conclusion that as more mothers enter the work force, more children tend to be left in day care institutions. Despite the fact, there is no existence of any national ...