I can't believe you'd make a blanket generalization like that. You've obviously never worked with kids who need them; I do. I have never been on prescription meds, and I think these are over-prescribed. But to say "children do not need anti-depressants" is, frankly, very silly.
Children do not need dangerous psychoactive medication. I’m not saying every kid can be a jolly carefree kid. But there are many, many other methods that will help children. Turning them into drug taking patients for life is so not the answer. Of course, society is in the handbasket, heading quickly south. So the things that will really help them probably aren’t going to happen.
I was in many ways a sad, anxious and lonely child. What I needed was not in the PDR. If I had been drugged as a child I can’t imagine how my life would have turned out. Much worse, nou doubt. The inner pain I experienced spurred me to look deeper into the purpose of life. Which I am eternally grateful for.
The topic is worthy of much in depth discussion which unfortuantely I don’t have time for. Mental and emotional pain can be ameliorated in many ways. Taking drugs doesn’t cure anything, it’s just mental novocain.
I’ve read that kids as young as TWO YEARS OLD are being drugged. The parents just don’t want to deal with them. Children need a home with a mother and father. Single parent “families” are churning out dysfucntional children. The solution is not to drug them. One important part of the solution is to KILL AFDC, and to resurrect the standard of marriage before children. Women SHOULD be ashamed of having a child out of wedlock. Men SHOULD be ashamed of fathering illegitimate children.
That would be a good start. Drugging kids is like giving someone with a broken foot aspirin. Sure, that might help dull the pain, but there’s a REASON for the pain. The broken foot needs to be fixed.