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Compesh is a question and answer (and debate) website, so before you make a debate, you better learn what an assertion is. I suppose you already know what a question is, and that you've typed it in the box. ;)
An assertion, is basically a statement you can make, that is either true or false.
Richer people have better health.
The question for that would be, Do richer people have better health?
And don't forget to make your assertion, match your question.
society
In America, there is known to be an unusually large amount of people diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (which also includes ADHD). What I've noticed through documentaries and other sources about American clinics that diagnose children with ADD, is that a third of people who are prescribed medication for ADD, are off the medication by the time they become 18. That is a relatively large percentage of people coming off medication for life-long behavioural disorders, which raises an important question.
If a large amount of children are coming off medication for ADD by the time they become 18, does that suggest that they never had ADD in the first place?
I live in Britain, and I am constantly astounded by the abnormally high amount of Americans who are diagnosed with ADD, in comparison to my country which provides free healthcare, counselling, prescription medication, and mental illness treatment and hospital wards. The healthcare system we have is more accessible and developed than the one that you have, so to suggest that the abnormalities in results are due to the lack of ADD British people not being diagnosed going under the radar, in order to counteract my argument, is baseless and lunacy at best. (I doubt very much that it's down to nature, Americans naturally being a different race than us.)
Could it be so, that there are environmental factors that are contributing to higher amounts of Americans being diagnosed with ADD, in comparison to other prosperous Westernised countries, such as Britain? And if so, what are they?
American parents have a completely different attitude to what is commonplace in Britain, in regards to prescribing medication to their children. If an American parent notices that their child is misbehaving in such a problematic manner that it is causing them problems as a parent, the first thing they will do is take that child down to the hospital to get medicated, ahem, "diagnosed".
My friend went abroad to New York City as a holiday where he stayed there for a couple of weeks, giving him a chance to become fully immersed and succumbed by the American lifestyle. What he noticed there while he watched tv, is that most of the adverts on the tv were for antidepressants. Most of the adverts were for pharmaceuticals. He found this odd, and me, him, his friends conspired this to be because of various conspiracy theories.
But that is not the point, the point is that most of the commercials running on american television are for antidepressants, drugs.
This has caused a differing attitude in America in regards to badly behaved, or for hope of a better word, behaviourally skewed people.
Americans consider medication to be a first port of call for whenever their children or anyone else for that matter, is acting up. Handing down antidepressant medication to them is seen as first nature, for anyone who is having a serious deprecating problem that is intentionally or unintentionally caused by their psyche.
It is their first port of call. It is first nature to them.
Let's not forget that this attitude is not in line with Europe, Canada, and Austrailia, or even Switzerland.
So when contemplating about this in a manner of critical thinking that is cohesive and sequential, it is perfectly obvious that Americans are over-medicating the next generation.
Think about it.
Americans have a completely different attitude to ADHD than in anywhere else in the world. Why do you think that is?
When Americans are having problems with their badly behaved kids, the first thing they commonly do is get them diagnosed. Why do you think that is?
The way Americans think about mental health needs to change, as there is a stigma to it. But more importantly, the way Americans get their children diagnosed without hesitation, is problematic and needs to change. It leaves a lot to be desired.
The American media through their barraging of commercials and other media forms, has implicitly and strongly caused a sinister and scornful view of Mental Health and problematic children, in such a way, that people who are seen to "have issues" are known to be a "cast-off", cast off into the darkness for all eternity.
I have actually asked a question about this last year, called Is there an environmental reason in society for why so many Americans have ADHD? and I stand my ground.