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LETTERS, Page 6Violent Youths
Contrary to your article on the causes of juvenile violence
(BEHAVIOR, June 12), I did not use the term "misshapen
personalities" to describe the effect on young people of a lack of
parenting. I did say more and more children are being raised by
troubled, often violent parents, and this experience, when combined
with certain vulnerabilities of impaired impulse control, such as
psychiatric, cognitive and neurological problems, seems to create
extraordinarily aggressive juveniles. Unfortunately, this
constellation of intrinsic and environmental factors is
increasingly common in our society today.
Dorothy Otnow Lewis
Professor of Psychiatry
New York University Medical Center
New York City