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Post subject: Article about the effects of separation from parents Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:59 am |
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Article about the effects of separation from parents William Wan: What separation from parents does to children: 'The effect is catastrophic'Washington Post, 18 June 2018 (Note: It is possible to click in to be permitted to read a certain number of articles per month in the Washington Post free, if one does not want to subscribe.) "This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents.
Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline. Those stress hormones can start killing off dendrites — the little branches in brain cells that transmit messages. In time, the stress can start killing off neurons and — especially in young children — wreaking dramatic and long-term damage, both psychologically and to the physical structure of the brain.
'The effect is catastrophic,' said Charles Nelson, a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School. 'There’s so much research on this that if people paid attention at all to the science, they would never do this.' ""In 2000, the Romanian government invited Nelson and a team of researchers into its state orphanages to advise them on a humanitarian crisis that the country’s previous policies had created. For decades, Romania’s communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu had banned birth control and abortions, and imposed a “celibacy tax” on families with fewer than five children. Ceausescu believed that ratcheting up the country’s birthrate would boost Romania’s economy. Instead, the government ended up opening massive state-run orphanages to deal with more than 100,000 children whose parents couldn’t afford to raise them. At those orphanages, Nelson said, “we saw kids rocking uncontrollably and hitting themselves, hitting their heads against walls. It was heartbreaking. We had to make up a rule for ourselves as researchers that we would never cry in front of the children. Whenever one of us felt ourselves tearing up, we would walk out of the room.” As the children grew older, Nelson and his colleagues began finding unsettling differences in their brains."
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