i am currently raising a grandson whose parents are both bipolar he has a 70% chase of being bipolar he has been diagnosed allready with adhd odd and is on medication which is always being switched because they cannot get the mood swings to stop school is a constant behavior problem barely passing it is a day to day fight

The problem is, that state to state, certain places don't label properly. In FL, they prefer to falsely label all cases of Spina Bifida, as DD instead of a plain disability or birth defect. I take umbrage w that, when both my wife, and I have higher IQs, with college degrees! I've been a full time taxpayer, in a skilled vocation. Its certainly not helping the civil rights movement, the "system", and perceived overloads.

Sounds like a perfect time to cut education. Your local Republican candidate would surely agree.

They will also ensure that later in life when these disabled citizens need Medicare that it will be gone or a shadow of its former self. Social Security? Same.

After all, making a profit is the most important patriotic thing to do.

No offense but half of what are considered mental or developmental disabilities are partially if not totally the parents fault. Parents do not spend time with their children anymore. They just let the TV or video games take over. Without a parent giving guidance kids ARE going to act out. They are STARVED for attention and if it means mood swings to get it, they will. Once a child has learned a coping mechanism to get attention, it becomes ingrained in them and eventually they become dysfunctional adults. Do you see these disorders in other countries? No. It's because Americans are fat lazy bums when it comes to parenting. They want kids but not the time associated with them.

ADHD is a lie, it does not exist. It's a label created by the pharmaceutical companies to get more money. It just drugs up a kid who was considered perfectly normal in our grandparents generation. These kids would eventually do a more "hands on" type of career, which in our urban society no longer exists so we drug them up.

Studies show that parents who are more involved in the lives of their children can keep autism from worsening and often make it disappear entirely. But no, we let our TV do the parenting.

Notice the small paragraph near the end of the article? The one that said that the numbers were increasing more dramatically among those with Medicaid and gov't health programs than private programs? 2 thoughts: #1 genetics are partially at play. It is very often much more than opportunity and ambition that separates the poor from middle class. America has more opportunity than any other nation on Earth, and those from any economic background with ambition are constantly raising their economic circumstances. That said, many people are poor because they are below-average in some way: intellectually, physical ability, mental stability, etc. Case-in-point: I know a family where Dad was all types of physical ailments from diabetes to multiple heart-disease problems. The only external contributor to his conditions was service in Viet Nam. He has never smoked, drank or done drugs. Of his 5 children, 1 is dyslexic, 1 has type-1 diabetes + PKU, another metabolic condition, 1 has learning disabilities and depression and 1 has all types of mental conditions beginning with Bi-Polar disorder. One has no conditions to date. Some of these problems are being passed to grandchildren, like the one child with learning disabilities and ADD (his dad has severe ADHD too, so its genetic on both sides) and one grandson with autism and ADHD, which may also have been partially brought out by being shaken as a baby. My other thought has to do with diet: both on the part of the children and their parents. Since the toker 60s, the drug culture has exploded. I will never forget when my parents pointed out that the parents in Spielberg's Poltergeist were getting high. That was kind of a moment of permission: go ahead, parents, there is no good reason to mature and put that stuff behind you. Well, there IS a good reason: your children. Have we seen any studies specifically excluding past drug use as a cause for these problems? Drugs remain in your cells for decades sometimes. What about America's new diet: the "someone else made it" diet, whether it be fast food, on-the-corner or frozen, they all have things in common - in order to make a profit, the product itself has to be made from the cheapest ingredients, and salt is the best way to fake flavor. All these refined foods are not like anything humans have ever eaten in the past millenia. Its an experiement. Could we be seeing the results? We also have been given evidence that this crap-food is disproportiantely being consumed by the poor. I have seen grown overweight individuals go to the checkout lane with nothing but generic-brand products: cookies, white sandwich bread, soda, sugary cereal and the like. Is this what there is to eat at many of these diagnosed children's homes? I propose it is.