Takes a lot to anger me these days, but this is nasty, sickening rubbish that blames parents for their kids' illness, and should not be allowed to be published.
Blaming the parents is like a knee-jerk reaction when health professionals are confronted to "MUS".
A psychologist I met told me she had a 10 y.o. patient suffering from depression. She got better so she discharged her. But a few weeks after, the mother called her. Her daughter couldn't walk at all, she was at the hospital, where the staff couldn't find anything wrong, so you guess what her diagnosis was...
The first thing they said was to advise the mother not to visit her daughter. The psychologist was taken aback, even though the girl had had a mild depressive episode, the parents were caring, and there was not a single reason to isolate the girl from them. She firmly recommended the mother to visit her daughter as usual, which she did under the disapproving eyes of the ward team.
So here we are, someone can be accused without any proof, just on the basis of unproven pseudo psychology. This is totally insane.
I have heard so many stories of that kind since getting ill. People mistreated by lazy doctors who missed difficult diagnosis. But the stories involving kids are just intolerable. The situation is so destructive for the children and their whole family. It's traumatising for everyone.
(When the girl was discharged by the hospital, the parents looked for a specialist who discovered she had a serious knee-cap problem. She got operated and recovered quickly.)