What Do Psychopaths Really Need?
Everyone is in shock about the mass killings at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs and now, at the campus for disabled adults in San Bernadino. But how can you be sure you don't raise a pyschopath ? A new study says that parents who don't pay enough attention to their children's distress may, in some very rare cases, not hear their children's cry for help, and then we all know what carnage can happen, after that. The recipe is pretty simple, at least to me. How do you stop a child, especially one who has experienced significant adversity, from growing up to be a psychopath? Responsive, empathetic care-giving – especially when children are in distress – helps prevent boys from becoming callous, unemotional adolescents, according to a new Tulane University study of children raised in foster care. The study showed that intervention can actually prevent such a disastrous outcome. The destructive condition affects approximately 1 percent of the populatio...