There must be millions of children " who'd wished to have been heard and approved " but there aren't millions who've murdered. It's as though you're excusing murder ?
To me there's NO excuse whatsoever for the lack of self-control unless a person is severely mentally ill and even then it has to be proved beyond doubt.
You're absolutely correct, Lookout. But we must remember that all children are individuals. Some will, if they have some sense of their self worth, have loving grandparents, or aunts and uncles they can unburden themselves to and feel supported by. Others who, for whatever reason, feel worthless/ungrateful will keep it to themselves out of fear of others learning how worthless and undeserving they are. I'm NOT excusing murder. I AM trying to find reasons for it. Bad behaviour is bad behaviour whether one is 8 or 80.
I found it very hard trying to live in a world which was nothing but black or white. No room for error. No room for reasoning. No room for my own beliefs. It was all about what others had dictated as SHOULD have.