There is a chance that your nephew has a chronic adjustment disorder.
Symptoms includes depression(very common) and in some cases conduct disturbances(less
common)
Here is a link to description in plain English:
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/dis...djustment.html

Most people recover completely from adjustment disorders, especially if they had no
previous history of mental problems, and have a stable home life with strong social
support. Recommend forms of psychosocial treatment for this disorder includes individual
psychotherapy, family therapy and behavior therapy.

Stop calling him little **** and persuade his mother to seek professional help.
BTW If it is adjustment disorder any kind of punishment only amplifies behavioral problems.





Tamper proof wrote:
Too_Many_Tumors wrote:



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051121/...E0BHNlYwN0bWE-


Spanking children fuels aggression, anxiety By Megan Rauscher

Children who are spanked when they misbehave are more likely to be
anxious and aggressive than children who are disciplined in nonphysical
ways, research shows. This is true even if spanking is the "cultural
norm."


I've seen just exactly the opposite with children who *do not* get spanked,
but instead get some stupid whiny sounding, petite, soft-spoken and gentle
'talking to'. Said children have already become nuisances to the parent(s),
the school(s), the neighborhood, and is/are bullies, not liked well by others
the same age. One of the little ****s in question is my nephew. His mother
has never laid a hand on him and he runs her life almost literally and does
what he wants to when he wants to...all starting at about 8 years old and is
now 14 or 15 (I don't give a **** about the little ****, nor does anyone else
in the family after all the crap he's pulled over the years and his mother
snubbing her nose at *US* for trying to discipline him when we were
unfortunate enough to have had to babysit the little ****er). Dad and I have
a running bet on the age he'll be when he first gets thrown in jail.