At the southern USA border...

...children are experiencing Toxic Stress which results in physical and mental illness as an adult. Why? Because the caretakers at not allowed to touch the children to begin to comfort them.

THEY ARE NOT ANIMALS. Sessions and Trump are worried someone is going to try to find pedophilia among the caregivers of the children. Political. So the children suffer while the numbers increase. I wonder if they change diapers?

Postive Response Stress

Tolerable Response Stress

Toxic Stress Response (click here for Harvard article)

A Statement Of Reaffirmation For This Policy Was Published At

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Pediatrics

January 2012, VOLUME 129 / ISSUE 1

From the American Academy of Pediatrics

Policy Statement

Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health, Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care, and Section on Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Andrew S. Garner, Jack P. Shonkoff,Benjamin S. Siegel, Mary I. Dobbins, Marian F. Earls, Andrew S. Garner, Laura McGuinn, John Pascoe, David L. Wood

Advances in a wide range of biological, behavioral, and social sciences (click here) are expanding our understanding of how early environmental influences (the ecology) and genetic predispositions (the biologic program) affect learning capacities, adaptive behaviors, lifelong physical and mental health, and adult productivity. A supporting technical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) presents an integrated ecobiodevelopmental framework to assist in translating these dramatic advances in developmental science into improved health across the life span. Pediatricians are now armed with new information about the adverse effects of toxic stress on brain development, as well as a deeper understanding of the early life origins of many adult diseases. As trusted authorities in child health and development, pediatric providers must now complement the early identification of developmental concerns with a greater focus on those interventions and community investments that reduce external threats to healthy brain growth. To this end, AAP endorses a developing leadership role for the entire pediatric community—one that mobilizes the scientific expertise of both basic and clinical researchers, the family-centered care of the pediatric medical home, and the public influence of AAP and its state chapters—to catalyze fundamental change in early childhood policy and services. AAP is committed to leveraging science to inform the development of innovative strategies to reduce the precipitants of toxic stress in young children and to mitigate their negative effects on the course of development and health across the life span.