On Oprah the other day, she talked about how a child is affected negatively when they are neglected. She showed a few cases of kids left in a room with no parenting, affection, starved, neglected, etc. She had a child psychologist on the show that said there are more neglected kids in the US than those who are sexually/physically abused.
One example was a girl who was kicked out her house at age 3. She lived in the backyard with the dogs. She acted like a dog when she was removed from the home 5 years later. Another was this little girl named Danielle in Florida who was neglected. When she was rescued by the Police & went to the ER, she was afraid to be touched, wouldn't look at anyone, and could only speak like an infant - she was like 5 or 6 years old. How sad.
Did you know the major architecture of the brain is created by the time you are 6? When you are neglected, your brain does not form properly. So this poor little girl's brain did not form properly thanks to this neglect. So so sad.
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some people should not have children - it's why I believe in choice. Jaime was a preemie and I learned back then that if babies are not held they will not grow or develop properly -- and that's why they have volunteers in the preemie ward just to hold the babies.
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