I don't believe children are evil either.

Children are terrified by lack of limits and more terrified of their own inability to self-control. I have a brother and 2 female cousins with bipolar disorder. Their outbursts mild in childhood, grew increasingly worse with age. Now approaching middle age, they are calming down again.

And I don't believe it is all down to upbringing. We are each generation exposed to more toxins in food and environment. Carpets and MDF are full of formaldehide, for example and it is everywhere. What are these poisons doing to small deveolping brains.

I learned after observation that I could not let my kids have anything with red food color or nutrasweet. It was like rocket fuel.