ABSTRACT
This subject concerns everyone, since all children at one time or another and in one way or another are rebellious and defiant. Some children are markedly so throughout the whole of their development; it becomes their characteristic way of responding to all adults and authorities. They show defiance and hate more continuously, more intensely, or with less obvious provocation than most others, and the mode of behaviour may become a settled response in adult life. The extreme cases are delinquent children and habitual adult criminals.
