More Adam Lanzas? Coming Right Up!
A chilling new statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Almost 20 percent of children in this country have some form of mental illness . According to a story in today's Washington Post, between 7 and 12 million children experience a "mental disorder" every year. That's one in five kids. And the rate is increasing, Tony Pugh reports. Now, of course, we're not talking about all psychopaths, but children with disorders who find it hard to learn, behave and cope with their emotions. The CDC puts that at 13 to 20% of all youths under 18. Even scarier, only 21% get treatment. Would therapy have helped Adam Lanza? No one will ever know. And it's not because parents don't take their kids for help, it's that the help isn't there. Pugh notes that a shortage of sub-specialty pediatricians and child and adolescent psychiatrists contributes to the problem. Worse yet, fewer medical students are choo...