What is it like having a child with Psychopathy? Ask a Parent 

This is honestly my biggest fear in becoming a parent in the future. I can’t think of a worse situation to be in

A giant sign that you haven’t abused your child into becoming a psychopath is your self awareness. Most psychopaths are never discovered because their parents literally cannot see what they are. Some people, quite literally, are born without a conscience.

Initially I wasn’t sure if she was being over dramatic but as I continued watching, I really felt her suffering. She’s carrying a lot on her shoulders.

You're not alone. This needs to be talked about more often than it is

If your child expresses callous unemotional traits, DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.

I would like to know what happened to her son so far

I was the kid with psychopathy. I went to talk with a psychologist when I was in my early 20's to get better insight about myself, and he informed me I have very strong primary traits. I am 28 now. I was a very difficult child for sure, my mother never gave up on me though despite all of my misdeeds. I am 28 now, and even though my weak father crumbled under the pressure of it all unable to follow through with what the started when it got hard my Mother has always maintained her love and loyalty for me. And for that I respect her, as successful as I am now I do make her life easier through money. I sent her to Greece last year for a month for example. If it weren't for her strength I would not have been able to get control of myself and get myself to the position I am currently in, I would probably have been homeless at age 18. So thanks Mom

I finally don’t feel alone. A few minutes and I feel like I got more therapy and validation than I have in years worth of therapy.

I'm dealing with this. I'm considering taking my child to a neurologist.

Good lord this is the best birth control I've ever seen before.

What a nightmare for a ‘normal parent’ to do through. The wasted years for this poor woman

After working with troubled youth, and meeting a psychopath in said field. I do not blame the parent. You can literally do everything to the best of your ability and still have them try to kill you for literally no reason.

I know a father that is dealing with a very disturbed son. He was caught trying to smother his infant sibling at 14. The dad found out his son also sexually abused two smaller girls. No remorse and 5 years of therapy did nothing to help his son. He has no remorse, remorse and definitely no accountability. Local law enforcement did nothing as a consequence but placed him with family that was without children. He is now 18. The dad is beyond devastated despite all the reports to police and CPS and no agency doing anything to hold him accountable.

I feel for this mum! I cannot imagine what’s like having this every day. I used to work as a nanny, experienced and professional over two decades. I got one job with a boy who I thought may have some kind of personality disorder and parents knew something was off since early age. I was feeling constantly manipulated and threathened, i was scared for his sister if I just looked away. Jealousy is nothing unusual but he was vicious with his sister, I was worried he would strungle her one day. I cried every morning before walking through the door that I have to spend time with him because it was my job. I felt guilty even just as a nanny for not wanting his company and also being in constant stress around him, felt like I am just giving orders and threats myself, I consciously had find good things about him other than something shallow as ‘he can be sweet on occasion’ and I could see he struggled a lot. Kids did not like him and those that very emphathetic enough were either bullied by him or parents prefered no afterschool time with him. I felt sorry for him knowing he is just a child but then he sometimes flipped and he did not have a child’s mind, I was scared. We worked on Mindfulness and it helped with some parts but it was emotionally exhausting. This was the end of my career in childcare, never again. The only thing that worked was a reversed psychology but of course, that’s not something to be used lightly. I got really upset with parents, because although they struggled too, they really just waited for a school to do something instead of going private for therapy, I felt they did not even try based on what I knew. I had no support as a nanny as an employee and we are talking few years back only, things have been available. Of course when school started reporting, it went down the hill because he had a massive outbursts, notices etc. I was happy to leave the job but I always felt we failed him because he was just a child, struggling. It’s confusing knowing he is a child but also fearing him as you would adult.

This is a woman at the end of her tether. What a nightmare that would be.

Im obsessed with watching these, so interesting. I don’t understand why people in the comments are trying to convince others they’re psychopaths

Kudos for very difficult honesty. Bravo!

Hi, I’m a teacher and have started seeing traits of psychopathy in one of my prek students and just started doing research on psychopathy in children. It’s unbelievably exhausting so I can’t imagine doing that full time. My sympathy to you! You mentioned having to do the teachers’ job in regards to your child and I’m curious to what that entailed. We’re so limited in what we can do and have 20-30 other kids to teach and look after. Other than documenting incidents, informing parents, and making sure everyone is safe, what else can teachers do to assist all involved in the situation?

Well other parents can't blame you, but who are they supposed to go to, when your child hurts another child? They have to resolve the situation somehow and prevent it from happening again, of course they are going to talk to the parents of the child eventually.

I just broke down listening… I am a single mum of 3 and my son has absolutely broke me to pieces…. So many things our family my sweet girls have had to endure and yet I am always alone and at fault. I research and read and listen as much as I can, therapy, had to remove him from my home in June until I can find common grounds but 2nd time being removed this year. He gave me a black eye and assaulted a police officer that responded due to the fact he was so out of control… sorry to pour. Just needed to I suppose.

It' s worst having them as parents. Always is a hell, but, us, the children of these beings, we end highly damaged and web only able to start understand we were not the problem at older ages. Lot of hard work and a high price requires for sure the people around them, trapped by them.

This poor poor woman. How did she manage?

Everything I see online says essentially that psychopathy in children is caused by bad parenting, cold parenting, abusive parenting, neglect- and maybe that happens often. But I know that I have done everything and anything that I can to be the best parent I can, all I every wanted was to be a good mom and have a good relationship with my babies, researching the best developmentally appropriate practice, practicing positive parenting natural consequences, reinforcement free parenting, following the explosive child like a bible, and yet, my son still wants to kill me. He still draws, obsesses over, and chants all day how he wants to hurt me kill me etc and smiles and laughs. He still tries to stab me, he still says he wants to “shoot police in the head if he ever gets caught” and I’m told there’s no way this comes from the mind of a child, he must be exposed to this, he must see violence, etc. but he doesn’t. We have been in therapy since 3, back when I thought surely this was autism like his brother, or something causing him to just be very overwhelmed and not know how to express it, because young children don’t manipulate, kids do good if they can do good after all right? That was always my motto. But I was wrong. I want to save my baby. And I am so tired of being told at every turn the only way he could be like this is if I’m an awful parent. As if I wasn’t asking doctors before his 1st birthday if it was normal for him to hit and bite and hurt me so much that it was all he had interest in, or normal for him to crack my cheekbone at 3 years old, or give my grandma two black eyes by 5. I have and will continue to give my life to save my baby, who was it seems stolen by this disorder and difference in his brain, but I don’t want to continue seeing what an evil parent I a, in the process because this is all I am anymore, a parent on a mission to help him, and give him the best life safely in the process.

Growing up being abused definitely makes me have a deep hatred for those who are a born a psychopath, so thank god ill probably never have kids.

...Boys schools, Military school...donate them to Scientology...

I was the kid, and i got over it like a big boy. As a diagnosed psychopath, who almost killed my brother, I think that any psychopath has a choice as to whether they are like that or not. I was horrible to my family until i was saved by Jesus Christ (not Catholic, Baptist, Catholics are more abusive than this womans kid)). I learned my morals straight from the source, and when i manipulate somebody, or am mean to them in any way, I can realize, and know that this has ramifications, and it is in my best interest to be a good person. I, a psychopath who used to have murderous thoughts, have had many people tell me that i am the nicest person they have ever met.

Some parents have to worry about there own kid killing them and no officer or law enforcement will help you

I pitty for this parents. Cant imagine how hard to deal with might be to be manipulated all the time by the person you love the most.

I was born a psychopath, but my traits don't really match up perfectly to what I've learned about my condition. In a way I'm like a hybrid between a factor 1 and factor 2 psychopath, and the factor 2 traits began showing in my teens. When I was maybe three years old, I was vicious. I was tormenting animals, brutalizing other children and lying like it was my job. I recall my parents confronting me with this stuff over and over again until I was like ten years old and it never made me care. It was just annoying for me to have to keep hearing about it, and for them to be so bothered by my choices. I wanted to be left alone. One trait that followed me throughout my life was being highly antisocial, but I'm not completely devoid of emotions like most people think born-psychopaths are. I have emotions, yet the only ones I really feel intensely are anger and excitement. When I'm angry, boy I'm angry. People have cut me off before for scaring them half to death. Now here's the part that doesn't fit in with my diagnoses...I experience some empathy. It usually pertains to losses. I can empathize with someone who has lost a loved one or a job or a house, whatever. But that empathy is not enough to stop me from taking something from them if I want it...does that make sense? It's like it has an override function in my head. I guess others don't have that. In my eyes I'm just different from other people. They don't seem to get that.

I was left homeless for one year because law enforcement ignored me with a child of psychopathy. I’m still in the mist of my crisis living in my vehicle. My adopted son, the true perpetrator planned my exile from home and plotted to kill me. I’m trying to seek help and not ONE HUMAN BEING ON PLANET EARTH IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, CPS OR TEXAS CHILDREN HOSPITAL HELPED ME.

As a parent of a child that had to endure bullying at a private "Christian" school by a child who (had some kind of violent tendencies, BPD) was held back and was much older than his peers. This Bully had been kicked out of public school. This kid who was much older and bigger than his classmates, (the other kids were 10 and he was 13 in the 5th grade) broke a little girl's arm in 2 places who was in 2nd grade. The bully was given 3 days suspension. He pushed my son down so hard I had to take my son to the doctor for x-rays of his tailbone because he couldn't walk or sit down. I called the police and put in a complaint because the school refused to do anything. The school resolved itself from any responsibility for injuries sustained by students onto other students. There were 2 other incidents of violence on my son by this bully to the point a parent told me to get my son out of the school before my son might end up dead. The Bully's mother would actually turn her back and allowed her son to beat up other very small kids and pretend she didn't see it. I had to be the teacher, principal, physiatrist, police, nurse, court recorder, etc... A child with violent mental disorders affects everyone around them NOT just their guardians. Public schools do not discipline mentally violent children that bully others and integrates them with normal healthy children causing great anxiety for otherwise normal healthy children. There needs to be a return back to separate accommodations in schools for mentally violent children and more help with parents of these children. Right now, I and other people where I live are dealing with a mentally violent child who is displaying Psychopathy. The problem in this case and like the one above is that the guardians know and are VERY verbal about the child's antisocial behavior but lie and cover up the 7-year-old child's crimes. This family's behavior affects everyone for blocks in a small town. There is BPD in the parents and grandparents' history. Retaliation is a likely possibility. So once again I have to record everything because a family struggling with mental illness affects the WHOLE community Not just the immediate family.

Totally been there. My daughter tormented me until she decided to leave the home at 15. She is now 42. Nothing has changed and now she says I was a narcissistic mother - something no one, including my other child, can corroborate. It is so lonely. The guilt will probably always be there for me.

My daughter was sixteen years old when she and I got into an argument. She attacked me with a knife, stabbing me six times. I didn't press charges and I wouldn't talk to the detective. We got into a bad and very heated argument because she had met an older high school boy that she wanted to move in with us.

The law blames victims

My daughter is showing signs of this and it’s scary to me. What can I do? Can bring my daughter to a psychologist?

I'm in the same boat. My son is turning 11 soon. I've done the best I can with therapies. My poor daughters are absolutely done with my son. I'm done with my son trying to either kill me or my twins or break my house for 3 hours everyday after school. He is always bored and dissatisfied. He is only interested in harming ppl or exciting himself with something extreme. If I tell the school he tries to kill me they laugh thinking I'm being a drama queen karen. Ppl assume that his poor behaviour and swearing at gathering has to do with me feeding him too much junk or me not disciplining him or that we have a dysfunctional home that makes him unhappy. None of this is true. My son only behaves better around my husband because my husband is stronger and he will scream or fight back. In a few years I don't know what I'll do but I'll probably be dead in 10 years from all the stress.

I guess it's good that the courts gave my psychopathic ex custody of my pscyhopathic daughter after all. Now what to do. My new husband doesn't want her around, because he's seen what I've already been through with her dad, and the patterns of her behavior. She's now an adult, having had a child of her own at age 17. Her baby was the most sweet, amazing, giving, loving, intelligent child I've ever known, but now being raised with her, the child has learned to lie and manipulate. It has been remarkably heartbreaking, to say the least, and now that child has suffered the abuse of the psychopath mother and grandfather.

I really appreciate what you said because it has been my concern last 39 years . The most difficult situation in life is dealing with a psychopath child. The worst part is parents do ten times more than what you do for normal child and result is nothing.

I recently watched the movie "We Need to Talk About Kevin." It is a brutal but great fictional illustration of a mother dealing with a psychopathic child. The thing about this boy was he was hateful toward his mom from the time he was a baby. But part of his psychopathy was he would pretend to be "nice" to the father. He also could successfully hide his rotten behavior from doctors. In short, this kid was a nightmare because he was smart, deceitful and SELECTIVELY dangerous. I sympathize with any parent trying to raise an anti social child because there is no escape. You ARE responsible for his/her well-being and behavior. You can't throw up your hands and say "I cant deal with this child." And there are very few effective ways to deal with the situation. What do you do when your child won't stop hitting, lying, yelling, hurting siblings or animals? Punishment doesn't work. I'm sure lots of parents are downright afraid of these children. From what I have read, the most promising treatment is a system of rewards, as opposed to spankings or taking privileges away. But it's hard to see how offering a reward to an 8 year old for NOT punching his sister is a good way to raise a child.

My younger brother was definitely sociopathic, and he TORMENTED my parents and myself EVERY DAY. And I never really thought about how my parents might have felt about it until just now, because of this video. Wow

i think the videos should be longer

The law needs to change! Because what if the teen or child puts the parents at serious risk? If it's severe enough couldn't that be looked at as a disability special needs and the child if the parents can't handle it should be placed with people trained to work with them?

Wish my boss’s parents had watched such educative videos decades ago.

My brother is a psychopath, I'm pretty sure. Before we used to moderately get along. I used to drive him to the store to get things a few times a week for a couple years because he didn't drive and it was always late at night because that's what he wanted, even though I had to work at 5am. Later on, my brother and I were forced to live together, as we both had no jobs and my parents let him move into their other house a year after I did. During that time they gave us $40 grocery money which we had to spend together and split fairly. One week the grocery money didn't go as far, and my mom said over the phone that we weren't getting any more and that's it. I was doing a workout in my room and when I came out he was cooking all of the food that was left and I thanked him saying I was just about to come up and cook and that was nice of him. In response, he told me I couldn't have any, because he was teaching me a lesson. (His words not mine.) I tried taking some anyway since I was starving after my workout and it all ended up on the floor. Before I knew it, he had me in a headlock and sat on my arms and legs and started strangling me and I couldn't breathe. That went on for about 2 minutes since I couldn't move, and I also couldn't breathe for that long. In a last ditch attempt to survive I managed to free one of my hands and punch him in the temple so he jumped off me to get away from it. But I almost died. And when I called my parents and told them I felt unsafe in the house after that, they dismissed everything and blamed me for trying to take some of the food which I was entitled to. They still to this day dismiss it and tell me that I need to get over it, but since then he has done a lot more to me. He even killed my mom's cats twice by starving them to death after I said to him that I liked one of them. He put a flea bomb in the house when my husband and newborn baby who had breathing issues were sleeping. He told my mom he "didn't know" it would come into our room when it clearly says on the box you need to vacate the house. We woke up in the toxic smog and had to run out of the house as we were in pajamas and with no baby stuff. We couldn't return home for hours and had to buy things like shoes, diapers and food etc. When we barely had any money left, it cost us everything we had. After this I lost my voice and we were really ill for a few days, and my mom spent the day defending it but eventually told him that he should not do that and that it was toxic. Two weeks later he did it again when we were sleeping. He also made sure to run the washer which was above where we slept. Every night he would wash several loads of laundry at random times like 2am, 4am and so on so that we would not be able to sleep. He would also drop small marbles and roll loud things around when we were sleeping. He would stomp and be as loud as possible every few hours, he would also tease the dogs and set them off so they would bark every 20 minutes or so. The only time it was possible to sleep for more than an hour uninterrupted was when he was asleep or away which wasn't much because he only sleeps 4-5 hours a night and doesn't leave the house much. We became sleep deprived because of him and never got a full night sleep for the 2 years we had to live there. My parents said it was ok because he isn't doing it on purpose but he definitely was. Even after being asked to not wash in the middle of the night, he always still would. I had to resort to turning off the breaker so it didn't sound like a helicopter was overhead at 3 in the morning when the washer was spinning over my bed while I was trying to sleep. He put draino down the kitchen sink when he knew it was leaking into my room and when he thought I was asleep. It spilled all over my jewelry and valuables so I had to stay up for hours cleaning them when I was about to sleep for the night. He would hide food items he knew were mine (After I started buying my own food) or take them out of the fridge and put them back in when they went moldy. And I knew because I would thoroughly search the entire fridge and something I needed wouldn't be in there and weeks later it would reappear on a shelf, rotten. Repeatedly. At least several items a week after mentioning them to him or him overhearing me mention them to anyone as being good. I had loaned him my bike and he left it out in the rain for a year after I asked him not to. He also attacked my husband one day right in front of my mom and my son and got him in a headlock and was bending his head back really far and said he was going to snap his neck. My mom says my husband deserved it because he is messy and supposedly said something to my brother to provoke him. And it goes on and on. We even moved out and he came to my house with my parents to bring expired food when he knew because my mom told him I didn't have trash service yet. So he brings me expired food from the fridge most of which isn't even mine, and throws my toothbrush on the floor when he came in to use the bathroom. After this, he keeps going in my room because it's taking me a long time to move my stuff out, and he is doing good knows what to my belongings. He put my stuff in garbage bags and made my mom bring it to my house. Clean things mixed with dirty, laundry mixed with breakables etc and she just dumped this on me and I can't trust that he hasn't thrown away my valuables. He even threw out a bunch of my mom's expensive furniture and people picked it up from the curb last year but she insists he wouldn't do that to my things. When he hates me and is always trying to impress her and gain her favor. Literally nothing stopping him from doing that. I feel violated and what can I do about it? He somehow managed to torment me even after moving out. My mom even acknowledged that he probably killed her cats and she doesn't think it's significant in any way. She still acts like he is some kind of saint. There is a girl he works with who is supposedly getting abused by her family and he wants to move her into my old room, this is the reason he keeps going through my things that are still there. I told my mom that he would not be doing all of that if he didn't want to have sex with her and she got really angry at me and yelled at me saying it's not like that, he's just a good person trying to help. He's always trying to help in her eyes no matter what he does. She gets angry at me any time I try to tell her what he is doing. She just refuses to acknowledge that he is a terrible person.

I'm pretty sure one of my 5 year kindergarten students is a psychopath. I absolutely do not blame the parent. I see her other children who are sweet and well behaved and they come the same home.

If my kid had psychopathy I'd probably put them up for adoption! As someone with BPD who has an overload of empathy and love I'm not going to take care of a child who abuses me and likes to hurt ppl and animals. I have no kindness for cold hearted or evil people. I hate psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcasists. I'm sorry but I can't ever be around a person like that!

I have a lot of respect for her seeing things so clearly and not detaching from reality. Parents of psychopathic children often will do anything they can to deny. I have seen it, they will forget about things the children do, they will find explanations that excuse the behaviour. And they will stress how much the child loves its sibling that it abuses. completely detached from reality because it hurts too much. Especially in children that are also autistic, because thats a nice excuse, diagnostic shadow. Like "he doesnt understand what hes doing" as if that makes it any better.

Well, fuck. My elderly parents took in my nephew after my brother died. My parents are his legal guardians. After four months, they couldn't handle him so we took him in. It's been a year and a half of getting nowhere and we've progressed into physical threats, etc.

You have my sympathy. I have personal experience of psychopathic children and they cannot be described as anything other than evil. No amount of love can change them because they don’t have the capability to understand or recognise love. They understand it as weakness and will only attack whoever wants to give them love. So, how can parents help these children? I would like to see more work being done on understanding these conditions in children and giving some guidance on how to parent them.

People forget that psychopathy is not the worse and doesn't mean evil. Real thing to be afraid of is someone who have feelings and all but has been so destroyed that it only seeks revenge on humanity. Why is it worse? Because it knows how to strike hard and it knows suffering. That's true evil, you embrace it.

My daughter is a sociopath. Has been since she was little. She learned how to speak and then to lie in one week. She is very good at lying. She knows what hurts and does it twice. She has kept my youngest grandchild from me since 2-19. She was 9 then and a teen now. She was a beautiful girl with big brown eyes and sweet smile and now she wants to be a boy. She calls herself Max. My daughter probably encouraged this behavior. My oldest granddaughter is schizophrenic. That was inherited but not from us. From the father. My daughter had 3 girls by 3 different fathers and she raised them mostly away from us. She has moved so many times I never knew where she was. She ghosted me for years. Last year my husband, her dad, had a heart attack. She called him once. I text her. But she only texts her dad when she wants more money. We must have given her over 50K over the years to keep her and my grandchildren in a place to live. For a while she lived with us. Her second child got pregnant at 17 and my daughter made her keep the baby but never took her to any prenatal visits. She ended up with preeclampsia and had to have a C section. She wanted to give the baby to her MIL. She never married the father. She never did anything around the house. The did not do wash or cook or clean. She hated the child and she looks just like me. Thank God I get to be in her life. Her mother, my granddaughter abandoned her in 2022. The baby dad got a new woman. Sam left her clothes and her daughter and sold the trailer we bought them so they would have a place to live. She kept all the money for herself even though I begged her to give the dad some child support money. She sold her rights of parenthood to him for a VR headset. This is the person my daughter raised. Really bad genes from the father of the middle one. A mental case. Sam never had a chance to be normal. Truth is they do not know what causes this. Was it my fault? Did I do anything wrong while gestating? Did I do something wrong after? How do these "bad seeds" happen. My husband says it is just her. But I saw disturbing things while she was growing up. My husband passed them off as a phase. NOT A PHASE. She was better during her first pregnancy. Maybe the hormones changed her. There is no deep study into sociopathy. She is not violent but she is cunning and cold and cruel. The dad of my great granddaughter will not allow her to see the little one. She showed her true colors the first month after the baby was born. They learned not to trust anything she said or did. Thank God I have that one in my life. Family is everything. We raised them in the church and in Christian school. She was what she was.

I cant imagine mych worse than being a parent of a psychopathic child.

Jesus! What an exhausting video! It strikes me that the cacophony of experts/personnel who are enlisted to deal with your child are AT LEAST as much of a problem here as your child is. How much thought do you give to getting rid of the lion share of this standing army and just dealing with your child directly?

But you are responsible.

What you must have been trying to say was that “the law” such as CPS will remove siblings because they would be considered “at risk” of harm by the sibling with psychopathy. Also, if anything happened to them, the parents would be charged with “negligence” or “failure to protect”.

I've never considered this before. My heart goes out to people in this situation. God speed.

Holy crap I've never had another human being describe in such detail everything that we have just gone through with our daughter to whom is now 24 years old and pregnant herself. Oh my God this is exactly to the t what we went through every word is true every word is exact

I felt that in my soul

I’m so thankful for this video because I feel seen 😢

I feel this deeply. I am in the midst of this with my 14 yr old right now, and you know what the CPS head of department told me yesterday? "Good luck. I hope you find some help." I literally am desperate to find ANY help before something terrible happens.

Hope your kid doesn’t see this when they get older. Gonna have a target on your back.

Thank you my daughter is 26 I can't begin to describe what I went through She took over my entire life I was left friendless at 11 they put a tracking bracelet on her I had to meet with 5 people a week while trying to raise her brother and sister EVERYONE BLAMES ME STILL! She is dangerous BUT IT GET BETTER!!! She has above average IQ Oh yes!!!! Yup so at age 49 now I'm broke I couldn't work She was such a strain it spit my marriage What is my daughter now doing? Oh she's highly intelligent so she manipulates and she flys through college classes at community college She mimics being a that would leave her own kid to die if she could get away with now that she's fine with their dad I know her Her siblings are not capable of seeing what I see She puts on and ACT She takes lots of perfect pictures for face book She spits everyone apart she wants everyone spilt DEVIDE AND CONQUER I wish to God I didn't get pregnant that month I love my kids unconditionally my son's and other daughter Doesn't matter if they do this or that I still love them But my oldest is not human in many ways

1. The law steps in, after they turn the legal age, until then, juvenile prison. 2. In some cases the parents are the enablers, are also psychopaths or a combination of psychopaths and narcissists. Had a classmate in middle school that would beat his mother, his mother could bearly do something about it, they had an older son also. The abuziv behaviour was due to at least one parent being abuziv towards another, in this case their father beating their mother.

Parents are responsible

i'm pretty certain my 14 year old brother is a psychopath. he's got zero remorse for anybody or anything, and prior to being removed from the house, he was beating the crap out of me and my mom for years. he was stealing large sums of money and items to sell. he sold important family items that we all used just because he could. like you said, the cops never did anything. neither did cps. well, actually, cps said, "oh, well, maybe you should consider removing the other kids from the house" instead of looking at my brother and recognizing that he needed to be removed or just. anything. my mom has exhausted herself in researching about psychopathy and trying to find treatment for him, but she's really come up with nothing. it's been 3 years since my little brother got removed from the house to live with my dad instead, and we recently got told that he's going to get sent back to us. i'm 18 now, so i have more options when it comes to taking care of myself, but i'm *freshly* 18. i don't have a job, a driver's license, or my highschool diploma quite yet (but i graduate on the 7th of june) and i'm terrified because of how limited my options are without any of those things. i have severe ptsd from the things he would put me through and i've been falling apart at the thought of having to see him again. i empathize with you to the highest degree. i'm so sorry you've had to go through the things you've had to.

Be careful whom you have a child with is one of the ways to try to avoid this.. lack of empathy can be passed on which quite often is anti social personality or other cluster b,but beyond that other relatives genetics can have an impact too ie grandparents etc

As a matter of fact my daughter told everybody that she knew come to find out, that I had sold her when she was a little girl to multiple men so that I can get some crack cocaine!! I've never touched the stuff but I finally figured out why she had such a dramatic story to tell everybody, it was to keep her with resources because everybody that gave her anything because of her horrible stories they felt sorry for and they gave her all kinds of stuff and in order to keep that attention going she had to come up with something very very horrible I had no idea until she was 24 years old, now I understand why they were so upset with me at first.

Fairly certain it can happen because of a neurodivergent issue so it needs more medical awareness of this issue as well.

I am sorry for your pain and suffering. I wish there was an easy answer to solve this to everyone’s benefit . To wake up everyday and wonder what fresh new hell awaits you is soul destroying. God Bless You.

Even a psychopath wouldn’t actively abuse someone they love, obviously YOU as the parent treated said child with unfairness to make the child want revenge.

I love this mom, I feel so sorry for here, it's not her fault, she's a true sweetheart but I can feel the f pain.

This is something I am currently dealing with and I also described it as being in a bad relationship only worse because you can leave. It is truly awful. As you mentioned the law won't do anything the courts won't do anything and you are made to feel like you are the problem... Even with plenty of documentation and the cops being called several times and her therapist trying to help and be like something needs to be done here I'm still looked at like I'm the problem and told there is nothing they can do. I've been physically attacked several times a week, she threatens to kill me almost daily and tells me how she is going to do it and laughs in my face as says it it me.. And there is literally nothing that I can do about it. I am so sorry for the others going through this as well my heart goes out to you all

She is an aware parent. She realises the difficulties with her child. So, it is somehow manageable on her side, well, to some extent it is. But imagine the parents who encourage this behaviour and i have seen so many parents laughing it off thinking this menacing behaviour of the child is funny. I guess, sometimes a blame is directed to them in general but sadly because of the population of such parents being more, sadly parents like her also have to face the wrath and unfortunately there is no control over it. Only thing that can be done is to talk openly about these issues during Parent-teacher meetings!

I get it you are not alone

This is a older video and im not sure you wull see this comment. My eldest daughter, needs to be in jail for the crap shes put me through. I was 7 weeks pregnant, and she threw me on the tiled floor while arguing, i lost the baby😢 she thinks she done me a favour as i was 45 at the time. I never got over it, but she made sure id never want to bring it up to anyone. No remorse at all, its been painful and so lonely 🥺

It’s the consequences of the doctrine that everyone is socialised

Why does the government interfere in the family? Govt institutions should stay out of family affairs. these laws need to be repealed.

Yup, sounds like parenting to me.

how about sign relinquishment of paternity? You actually can get awwy with your kid legally.

Damn that feels so exhausting and scary 🤯

This doesn’t answer what signs to look for to know if a child has psychopathic traits.

In terms of support, strategies and resources, what do you recommend those caring for your child do better?

My partner has a daughter who’s one of these we’ve moved 300kms away and have little too no contact horrible person she is

This is heartbreaking to watch.

What would happen if your child saw this?

I think all this post is about what you feel as parents. Gap of empathy can be very useful in this world for so many jobs: pilots, soldiers, army, police, security, politics, fireman, motorbike pilot, F1, parachute instructor... Psychopaths respond terrible well to rules and codes, maybe send him/her to army school may help a bit. And talk in a language they can understand. Find an expert, a psychiatrist who can help you to raise your children, and use logical and arguments may work. Maybe complaining is the only useless thing. Focus all they can do, that we cant and also we need in this society. Psychopath doesnt mean has to be a pychokiller.

As someone who even wishes that he could someday be a father- but, I am 100% aware of how extremely far from now that is considering: I'm currently stuck in a shelter, stuck at 86/128 credits due to being stuck at Algebra II AND with different mental issues of my own despite an extremely good knowledge of D.Y.I. AND working it as systemically as I can with medication and other services- I feel SICK hearted for parents who notice, deal with an are stuck having to mentally repair themselves on a daily basis with such train wreck children- I keep it in mind that, however most children are not nearly as bad as what she obviously alludes to. I'm myself never been nearly as bad. God Bless parents dealing with ANY level of their children's ongoing / momentary issues.

It's right to say that the kid on Good Son is a psychopath?

This sounds hard for you never thought of it in my case,i have ASPD...i can simply not even care for my mother or not even try to, but there are moments where literally i do try to make a functional relationship and fucking every time she fails, and i do something like this she said im like really just don't care about other people for god sake, it's even for me like surprising and idiotic i find it annoying...her emotions annoying or even nothing if she had them, don't get me wrong i love her,i just don't care. But thanks this helps in my cognitive empathy learning.

Yes and the father is also a sociopath. I’m the bad guy??

I’m sorry mom ❤

You definitely can relinquish parental rights though…. 🤔

I’m truly sorry you are locked into an ongoing process with a dark personality.

That’s your child

but psychopaths arent bad people. Its just a different type of hardwiring, like autism

Holy hell 😮

You can set up for adoption

0:16 The only difference is that you’re “legally required” to be there?! How about morally? Or spiritually? If you really don’t think you owe your child anything, then just walk away!

Parents deny all wrong doing, my abusive parents and caregivers deny all of it.

holy shit