Mothers of Boys with Gender Identity Disorder: A Comparison of Matched ControlsA study like this would probably not get published today.
SONIA MARANTZ, PH.D., AND SUSAN COATES, PH.D.Abstract. This pilot study compared mothers of boys with gender identity disorder (GID) with mothers of normal boys to determine whether differences in psychopathology and child-rearing attitudes and practices could be identified. Results of the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and the Beck Depression Inventory revealed that mothers of boys with GID had more symptoms of depression and more often met the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder than the controls. Fifty-three percent of the mothers of boys with GID compared with only 6% of controls met the diagnosis for Borderline Personality Disorder on the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines or had symptoms of depression on the Beck Depression Inventory. Results of the Summers and Walsh Symbiosis Scale suggested that mothers of probands had child-rearing attitudes and practices that encouraged symbiosis and discouraged the development of autonomy. J . Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1991, 30, 2:310-315.
Is this any surprise? Yes of course crazy moms are the cause of gender confusion in boys.
1 comment:
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you. Who could have ever foreseen that crazy people drive other people, especially highly impressionable children, crazy?
Children will say or do just about anything to get the approval of their parents...even when the parents are borderline insane.
It also isn't lost on me that the word 'autism' seems to be always kissing cousins to underage describing children suffering from body dysmorphia.
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