Sentence examples for deficient parents from inspiring English sources

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.

And of the latter, "Peter Flannery seems to want to suggest that friendships are the only cure for a life blighted by deficient parents.

A case in point: a doctor at a pediatric clinic told the mother of an aggressive, hyperactive preschool-age boy that her deficient parenting skills were to blame.

Poor parenting has been suggested to be one of the strongest predictors of delinquency [ 56] and standard contemporary definitions of child neglect [ 62] always includes an element of deficient parenting among the acts of omission that constitutes child neglect.

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.

The unavailability of immunization cards and deficient knowledge among parents to keep cards safely was also indicated.

Why would we judge a person as being deficient as a parent just because they are not fully destroyed by the loss?

(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).

tPA-deficient mice [30] were backcrossed to C57Bl/6J mice for 22 generations, and used for breeding of heterozygous parents that yielded gene-deficient and wild type littermates.

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.