According to the DSM V this disorder is characterized by anger guided disobedience in children. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposit...fiant_disorder (Children of alcoholic parents, or whose parents have "been in trouble with the law" run an 18% chance of developing ODD, beginning very early in age)
I suppose children that have been abused can qualify for this if they are sufficiently angry about it, it doesn't specify which authority figures one has to be defiant towards. (For a child or adolescent to qualify for a diagnosis of ODD, these behaviors must cause considerable distress for the family and/or interfere significantly with academic or social functioning.)
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