Taking your child to a shrink is a growing form of child abuse. Parents make their own child a scapegoat by branding him a patient instead of facing their own problems. Children simply react to craziness. And there is no normal way to react to craziness. By Fr. Heyward B. Ewart, Ph.D., president of St. James the Elder Theological Seminary, a distance-learning ministry. He is also a doctor of psychology with nearly 30 years of practice experience.