Mental illnesses are often underdiagnosed because symptoms are either not recognized or are wrongly attributed to spiritual, cultural, or behavioral issues.

Family challenges like single parenthood which is caused by the death of one parent, absent parent, divorce, or separation highly contribute to mental illness among the children.

Single parents tend to give excessive permissiveness to try to cover up for the absenteeism of the other parent, it is worse if the child experiences betrayal and violence when the marriage existed.

The separating and divorcing process is usually very draining physically, psychologically, and emotionally for children.

The separation and divorcing process take children through unprepared relationship separation, property division, and children custody battles.

All these highly contributes to depression and anxiety disorders among young people. The negligence during the process leads to the children looking for comfort or love from people with negative influence leading to drug abuse, crime, and mental illness.

All this can be solved by collective responsibility to child up bring through extended family, children sporting and talent building in place that has good influences like churches, schools, and sports clubs.