We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication

Abstract

Judith Warner’s We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication started out as a book aimed at criticizing the overmedication of children that did not really suffer from mental health issues but were instead more or less silenced by their parents into submission. After interviewing parents of children suffering from mental health problems, Warner completely changed her mind and wrote We’ve Got Issues which helps defend parent’s choices of medicating their children. Warner states that the aim of We’ve got Issues is to set the record straight when it comes to what life is like for parents and children who are confronting mental health issues. Secondly, it aims to discuss current scientific understandings of mental disorders.