Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Australian National Office

Climbing on furniture and talking too much could lead to a psychiatric diagnosis for your child

ABC News, Online Opinion, 9 November 2021

A common refrain children down the ages have heard is “you don’t know how lucky you are. When I was your age…” with some grown-up saying how they made do with far less and worked harder.

In 2021, I can say with all honesty that children growing up today face an unprecedented threat of a kind never imagined when we were kids.

The last 20 years has seen billions of dollars profit pocketed in medicalising almost every childhood behaviour, labelling them as “diseases.”

Read the full article here: https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=21711&page=1

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