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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 549652" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Well, there ARE tendencies. There is something called the McDonald Triad that can be predictive of antisocial personality disorder tendencies in children. The three big red flags (and they HAVE to all occur in the same child) are cruelty to animals, peeing and pooping inappropriately, and fascination with fire/fire setting. </p><p></p><p>In children, antisocial behavior is often part of reactive attachment disorder or impending Conduct Disorder. There are studies out now that indicate that children of antisocials are more likely to be. Genetic? They don't know yet. But people who adopt children with antisocial parents are more likely to have a child with antisocial behavior, no matter how well they raise them. There are certain traits, such as impulsivity, risk taking and lack of fear of discipline or authority figures that make people more likely to disregard social norms and become criminals. Is it a sure thing? I don't think so. But there are red flags...</p><p></p><p>The child Michael described above is acting out, but he isn't displaying any of the really severe antisocial symptoms such as t he McDonald Triad, lying, stealing, etc. Sounds more like he has some sort of undiagnosed childhood disorder.</p><p></p><p>We adopted a child who had severe reactive attachment disorder and that is equal to adult antisocial personality disorder. He was 11 when we got him. His life had probably been horrific before us, so that's obviously a contributing factor. He killed animals, set little fires in our house, sexually abused our younger kids, and lied like he breathed, but he acted like an angel to adults to, sadly, it took us a while to figure out what was going on. He is married with two little girls now. I shudder to think of those poor babies. He is supposed to be signed up as a sexual predator, but he's not. And hub and I are t oo afraid of him to alert the authorities that he is out there and not signed up. Sorry, I got off track, but child psychopathes do exist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 549652, member: 1550"] Well, there ARE tendencies. There is something called the McDonald Triad that can be predictive of antisocial personality disorder tendencies in children. The three big red flags (and they HAVE to all occur in the same child) are cruelty to animals, peeing and pooping inappropriately, and fascination with fire/fire setting. In children, antisocial behavior is often part of reactive attachment disorder or impending Conduct Disorder. There are studies out now that indicate that children of antisocials are more likely to be. Genetic? They don't know yet. But people who adopt children with antisocial parents are more likely to have a child with antisocial behavior, no matter how well they raise them. There are certain traits, such as impulsivity, risk taking and lack of fear of discipline or authority figures that make people more likely to disregard social norms and become criminals. Is it a sure thing? I don't think so. But there are red flags... The child Michael described above is acting out, but he isn't displaying any of the really severe antisocial symptoms such as t he McDonald Triad, lying, stealing, etc. Sounds more like he has some sort of undiagnosed childhood disorder. We adopted a child who had severe reactive attachment disorder and that is equal to adult antisocial personality disorder. He was 11 when we got him. His life had probably been horrific before us, so that's obviously a contributing factor. He killed animals, set little fires in our house, sexually abused our younger kids, and lied like he breathed, but he acted like an angel to adults to, sadly, it took us a while to figure out what was going on. He is married with two little girls now. I shudder to think of those poor babies. He is supposed to be signed up as a sexual predator, but he's not. And hub and I are t oo afraid of him to alert the authorities that he is out there and not signed up. Sorry, I got off track, but child psychopathes do exist. [/QUOTE]
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