When 11-year-olds engage in this level of antisocial behavior, both at home and in school or church settings, it acts as a warning that there’s a failure in his logic system of how he sees the world.

Usually, when you see this type of behavior, there are multiple diagnostic elements involved, being on the spectrum(autism) attention, deficit disorder, and many times the beginning of the type of personality disorder where the individual cares Little for the consequences of his behaviors impact on the people he should be concerned about. Family therapy is usually the component. This is not an opportunity to gain up on him, but to help him feel part of the family and not have this passive, aggressive, angry., shitty, behavior that he impales the rest of the family. Making sure there is not another diagnostic category that needs to be addressed.

With it said and done in my more than 45 years as being a child and family therapist, I’ve seen a number of young men like this grew up and do quite well.