Raising a brat: Is this a case of new age parenting?

Four years ago, the family of former Assistant Minister Betty Tett hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Betty's son, David William Tett, had been sentenced to death for participating in a violent robbery against his own father, William Mulready Tett, and two domestic workers at the family's Karen home. David, it would emerge, was not the Tett's biological son but had been adopted early in his life following the death of his biological mother. That notwithstanding, Betty says, David had known no other mother but her and was therefore nothing short of a son.