What makes a person try to make up psychological problems with thier little children?

Answer 1

Because people can't accept that their child may not be the smartest, or the best in the class, so they need something besides bad genes and being raised improperly to blame the child's ignorance on.

Answer 2

Little children that drive the neighbors nuts and attract dirty looks from everyone at the supermarket, in spite of the fact that the parent is strict and applies strong discipline (that doesn't leave marks, don't want to get arrested) as well as the ever-popular positive reinforcement.

Namely, having a little child that is not normal (as the parent knows it), but the parent hasn't found the cause yet. Please be aware that the way children act in public can be quite different then the way they act at home, where they can relax and act natural.

OR
The parent could have a form of Hypochondria
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/118/112884.htm
OR
a Factitious Disorder
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/60/67132.htm
I can't really find one that fully applies to a parent making up stuff about their child. But those may come close.

Answer 3

In its mildest form, the parents are usually transferring their own problems with life (which they refuse to recognize or accept), onto their children. For instance, a mean or abusive parent may label his child as a "bully", or a person who feels like a loser, will pick away at his kid's mistakes, inevitably labling HER as the "loser", rather than himself.

This is actually quite common, especially in a society (including ours) in which children are considered "lesser" beings with fewer "rights", both morally and legally (in reality)!.

The parent may be acting out deeply buried feelings of anger and/or resentment about having a child when he/she didn't want it, by heaping criticism on the child and responsibility for the failings caused BY THE PARENT(S)!

In a more extreme (and very disturbing) form, the Parent may actually cause harm to the child, then pose as the "concerned, worried" caretaker, to gain sympathy. This is known as "Creutzfelder-Jabob Syndrome" and is far less rare than once thought.

The first site below lists it as a form of "dementia" or insanity.
The second site lists it as a brain disorder caused by prions, similar to those causing "Mad Cow Disease". I don't buy it.

As far as I know, the "jury's still out" as to WHY these parents feel compelled to blame their children for the own failings. This has been going on for centuries...far longer than any "Prion-based" disease can account for.

IMO, parents just don't want to accept responsibility for the fact that they are wrong and screwed up their own kids! They need help and if they won't accept it, should have their kids taken away and then be sterilized! They have no right to reproduce, much less be in control of helpless children!

Answer 4

Not quite sure what it is you are asking but I will try to answer in two tier. An adult with bonding issues creates a false field in which another person or child will be empathetic to, there by reassuring that individual that they are loved( in there mind ). It acts as a comfort food for them. In the opposite sense a person will create an injurious environment for another so that they themselves can be the sole care giver there by creating a sense of being needed.

Answer 5

I think people do this to draw attention to themselves - to gain sympathy from others and also so that they can be portrayed as the poor suffering parent, the one who stuggles through it all and nurses a child back to health. It re-affirms their status as parent, as a good parent. They play god - they have ultimate control over a child's life. The name for this is Munchausen Syndrom when someone inflicts injury upon themselves or Munchausen by Proxy when they inflict it upon others. It is possible that from a child themselves - remember being looked after, waited on hand and foot, the attention is where the idea first stems from?

Answer 6

a) To get attention around other people, "My Johny....
b) To get attention from welfare
c) To justify feeling helpless
d) To avoid feeling responsible for the child's action
e) To control a significant other in the relationship
f) Pity parties are fun.

Answer 7

some psychological problem of their own???