Damaging Kids for Life
The psychological and physical effects on infants and children of extreme isolation from their parents or even caring others has been well-established in the psychological/psychiatric literature. Anyone interested can easily read about the higher death rates in infants who died of what was termed "hospitalism" by Rene Spitz. The young babies died at a higher rate than would be expected even though they were fed, changed and kept in clean cribs in orphanages. Why? Studies wit