We've Got Issues: Children and Parents In the Age of Medication »

Judith Warner is the author of the New York Times- bestselling Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety and Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, as well as several other books. She writes the "Domestic Disturbances" column for the New York Times website and is a former special correspondent for Newsweek in Paris.

In her provocative new book, New York Times-bestselling author Judith Warner explores the storm of debate over whether we are overdiagnosing and overmedicating our children who have "issues."

In Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety, Judith Warner explained what's gone wrong with the culture of parenting, and her conclusions sparked a national debate on how women and society view motherhood. Her new book, We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication, will generate the same kind of controversy, as she tackles a subject that's just as contentious and important: Are parents and physicians too quick to prescribe medication to control our children's behavior? Are we using drugs to excuse inept parents who can't raise their children properly?

What Warner discovered from the extensive research and interviewing she did for this book is that passion on both sides of the issue "is ideological and only tangentially about real children," and she cuts through the jargon and hysteria to delve into a topic that for millions of parents involves one of the most important decisions they'll ever make for their child.

Insightful, compelling, and deeply moving, We've Got Issues is for parents, doctors, and teachers-anyone who cares about the welfare of today's children.

The Washington Post - Susan Okie

I opened Judith Warner's new book with a certain dread, fearing that I would have to slog through yet another polemic about the overuse of stimulants and other psychiatric drugs in America's children. Instead, I found a refreshing surprise: a confession by the author that she had indeed gotten a book contract and embarked on her research with that mindset, only to change her views after talking with the parents of mentally ill children…Interweaving stories of children and families with scientific information and well-researched arguments, Warner makes a compelling case that as a society we should do much more to make mentally ill kids feel better.

1 UNTITLED on Affluent Parents and Neurotic Kids 7

2 Seeing Is Believing 31

3 An Epidemic of Supposition 49

4 Aren't They All on Medication! 65

5 Who, Exactly, Is Having Issues! 91

6 "B-a-d" Children, Worse Parents (and Even Worse Doctors) 117

7 Stuck in the Cuckoo's Nest 145

8 Ritalin Nation! 171

9 The Stories We Tell 191

10 A "Better Time Than Ever" 209

11 Moving Forward 233

Acknowledgments 251

Notes 253

Bibliography 303

Index 309