"Science cannot explain the rise of autism, obesity or attention deficit disorders, but one doctor has a theory: parental stress."
"Mate said the key to raising healthy children is a nurturing home and community, but those environments are extinct."
"We are not talking about individual parental failure. We are talking about a broad social phenomenon," Mate said. "We live in a society... that completely destroys the parenting environment and then we have all these kids in trouble and we medicate them."
I find this quote most fascinating.
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"The physician also cited research where doctors could determine which mothers had postpartum depression by examining the electrical activity of infants' brains."
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/If-you-re-stressed-so-is-your-kid-2192120.php#ixzz1ZIdsWzCI
"Mate said the key to raising healthy children is a nurturing home and community, but those environments are extinct."
"We are not talking about individual parental failure. We are talking about a broad social phenomenon," Mate said. "We live in a society... that completely destroys the parenting environment and then we have all these kids in trouble and we medicate them."
I find this quote most fascinating.
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"The physician also cited research where doctors could determine which mothers had postpartum depression by examining the electrical activity of infants' brains."
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/If-you-re-stressed-so-is-your-kid-2192120.php#ixzz1ZIdsWzCI