"We are medicating children sometimes for ferociously awful behavior based on poor parenting, " she said.

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Based on their parenting roles, some female business chiefs have sought to ease staffers' work-family conflicts by introducing perquisites such as "flex-time" and sick-child facilities.

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Experts at the National Antisocial Behaviour Clinic based at London's Maudsley Hospital draw a direct line between poor parenting and a range of social problems including educational under-achievement, criminality and drug misuse.

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