The Misidentified Child

• Family Conflict

The "identified patient" in a larger family dynamic is too often a child, medicated for his behavior symptoms.

Psychotropic Drug Rx

• American Psychological Assoc. states more research needed
The short- and long-term effects psychotropic medications have on children's physical growth, brain development, behavior, mood and cognitive functioning are unknown.

Fewer Two-Parent Families

•The Rise of New Families
Decades of demographic, economic and social change have transformed the structure and composition of the American family.

More Than Two Legal Parents

• Bill moving through the California Legislature
Legislation would allow judges to recognize more than two legal parents for a given child, opening the door for legal recognition of alternative family configurations.

Regulatory Sensory Processing Disorder

• Children with Developmental and Behavioral Disorders

"...as we learn more about the genetics and neuroscience of mental illness, we will find that the sensory processing issue is primary, and we simply organize the range of symptoms that may result from this problem into categories, in the form of diagnoses such as autism, OCD, anxiety and depression. These may in fact all be regulatory sensory processing disorders."

Legislating Custody

• Gov. Dayton Vetoes HF322 Bill
Resoundingly opposed by the MN Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the AFCC-MN, read why here. The 'who' behind this vetoed bill is outlined here.

Children & Divorce

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Recommendations 
With care and attention children can be helped to deal constructively with the resolution of parental conflict.