At the same time in 1940s America, coincidentally, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner claimed autism was a form of childhood schizophrenia brought on by emotionally deficient parents.
We sat on the sofa and were made to feel like we had a uniquely awful child, and we thought we were uniquely deficient parents.
She said that before the new law, probate courts were often unwilling to terminate a noncustodial parent's rights, even if that parent was absent or in some other way not a good parent, using the argument that a deficient parent was better than none, especially if something happened to the primary parent.
And of the latter, "Peter Flannery seems to want to suggest that friendships are the only cure for a life blighted by deficient parents.
I'm not proud of these tactics, but they were survival strategies in a society that often puts all single black mothers — and, by extension, their children — in the same deficient-parent pot.
Why would we judge a person as being deficient as a parent just because they are not fully destroyed by the loss?
The unavailability of immunization cards and deficient knowledge among parents to keep cards safely was also indicated.
Some individuals staunch their empathy through the deliberate endorsement of political or religious ideologies that promote cruelty toward their adversaries, while others are deficient because of bad genes, abusive parenting, brutal experience, or the usual unhappy goulash of all of the above.
(Note to reader: I am not claiming that all individuals in the above referenced professional capacities are deficient, but such deficiency is sufficiently common and can have substantial impact on families, as attested to in numerous writings by parents and others).
