Anastopoulos, A.D., Sommer, J.L. & Schatz, N.K. ADHD and family functioning. Curr Atten Disord Rep 1, 167–170 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12618-009-0023-2

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Children with ADHD appear to be more demanding of their parent’s attention and more dependent upon their parents than children without ADHD. Their mothers are usually highly direct with their children but are unlikely to attend to the child’s needs. Mothers of ADHD children act differently towards sons with ADHD, acting more emotionally towards them and engaging in more negative interactions with them, but are far more rewarding of their sons than their daughters with ADHD. Unlike mothers, there is minimal information available on the interactions and relationships of fathers with their ADHD children, but what little information there is suggests that fathers have an easier time interacting with these children than mothers do.

ADHD and Parent-Child Relationships

Barkley RA, Anastopoulos AD, Guevremont DC, Fletcher KE: Adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: mother-adolescent interactions, family beliefs and conflicts, and maternal psychopathology. J Abnorm Child Psychol 1992, 20:263–288.

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