Violent Children
... One of the most exciting and straight-forward books written about violent children is Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children by Jonathan Kellerman. ... Kellerman’s bold statements, especially one in particular that suggests children diagnosed too late to be saved from a psychopathic future should be thrown in jail, defy political correctness and give new meaning to the word taboo. Another popular book on violent children is Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller’s For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child Rearing and the Roots of Violence. ... Perhaps the most thorough of the three books covered on violent children so far, Boys will be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence by Myriam Miedzan suggests many factors go into the violent behavior exhibited by children. ... Miedzan wonders how we as a country can be surprised at violent children when violence is all around us – in the media, in the household, and in the academic environments. In the second part of her book, Miedzian extends even further upon cultural factors affecting aggression and violent behavior in males - neglect and deprivation, uninvolved fathers, TV/music, movies, sports, toys, dominance/toughness, and repression of emotions in young men. ... Miedzan, on the other hand, covered nearly all aspects of factors influencing violent children and so was easier to believe and trust.