Early Investments in Children can Prevent Costly Lifetime of Effects of Damage

Yes, we need to start from the ground up.

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Thanks Carey. Be sure to check out the webinar. It was really good!

Great post. We in the US so have the rearing, care, and nurture, and nourishment of children bass-ackwards. 

If we would but “load the front end” by supporting young families with what they need (family leave, high-quality, state-sponsored child care, a terrific education system, affordable housing that doesn’t eat up every penny of one’s income, a minimum wage people can actually live on — or better yet, income equality) stressed-out moms wouldn’t be perpetuating attachment issues with next-gen abandoned babies who spend their lives trying to get back what they didn’t learn in childhood: you are loved, you are precious, you matter, what you say and do matters, I am here to meet your needs; you can learn to meet your own needs someday, you can meet your needs, yay society! 

Instead, so many children from a parent or parents stressed by high rents, student loans, medical debt, lack of childcare, and low wages, are going from unregulated day care where they may well be being abused, to crummy schools, to trying to find crummy jobs, to trying to make-do in a world that increasingly makes a wider gap between the haves and the have nots, by ignoring equality, ignoring global warming and its impact on the poor, by ignoring all manner of factors that a trauma-informed society would address — as a matter of course. 

Great story. Thanks.