Personally I believe parents lack the patience and mostly time to discipline effectively and teach their children. My husband and I came across a study a year or so back discussing children with ADHD and ADD and it said that the majority of children they studied were actually suffering from sleep deprivation and bad diets and that explained why they couldn't concentrate and were hyper active. In modern times even children experience the pressure of business, education, parents work scheduling..etc. There were periods in my childhood/teen years were I felt my mind was unable to grasp my studies and even the simple things and when I look back upon that I realized my insomnia/lack of sleeping started around that time as well.

The day a doctor tells me my child/ren need medication is not going to be a good day. I would simply refuse to medicate my children...straight up. Misplacing the blame for a child's behavior on them instead of my self and lacking solution is just LAZINESS.