Bangladesh is one of the densely populated countries of South East Asia with children up to the age of sixteen making up nearly half of the population. Like other least developed countries Bangladeshi children are subjected to a large diversity of conditions which may have negative effect on their physical and psychological well-being like poverty, malnutrition, poor living conditions, infectious diseases and illiteracy. There are positive factors in the cultural background, family bondage, caring parents and other members of the extended families and good relationship with siblings and cousins. Globally one in every five children and adolescent suffer from a mental disorder and two out of five who require mental health services do not receive them. It is expected that by 2020 childhood neuropsychiatric disorder will rise to over 50% and will become one of five most common reasons of morbidity, mortality and disability among children. 1 Behavioral problems can occur in children with all ages and very often they start in early life. Many risk factors have been proposed for the occurrence of mental disorders, among which social factors are clearly implicated in the
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