This often leads to more problems rather than less. Most people, from young children to adults in the care of someone else, require individual attention from time to time. And yet, across the country, we are seeing more overcrowded classrooms and more children in day care because. Many of our elderly are in overcrowded nursing homes. These situations can become problematic when overcrowding interferes with the individual attention that a person receives.
Many classrooms have one or two children who misbehave on a regular basis.
The result is that they are corrected by adults more often than they are appreciated. Even at home, many children learn to act out in order to get their needs met. Some children and adults with mental retardation, autism or other impairments of communication and understanding, often learn that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Many individuals who have been in group living arrangements over time have developed a variety of difficult behaviors. Hurting others, running away and even hurting themselves, can become their most reliable means of communicating and getting their needs met.