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Breastfeeding Bonding Prevents Infant Mortality And Suicide

Posted on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 09:35

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world, to a large or small extent, has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime, guilt ~ and there is the story of mankind. John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

Breastfeeding bonding and baby-carrying bonding are the first events of life, which the newborn/infant/child learns about love and non-violence. Love is first learned at the breast of mother and by being carried on her body ~ like in utero, where the first lessons of being connected with mother are learned.

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abuse-neglect
bonding
brain
breastfeeding
culture
pleasure
pregnancy

Motherless Mothers, Violence & Brain disorders

Posted on Fri, 11/07/2014 - 11:53

After fifty years Attachment Theory is no longer a theory. Decades of research confirm; the nature and quality of a human being’s earliest relationships shape the body and the brain for a lifetime.

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abuse-neglect
bonding
brain
violence

BETRAYAL OF ABUSED AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN & MOTHERS

Posted on Mon, 10/06/2014 - 16:24



By the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (NICHD / NIH):

Letter to Vice-President Biden; Senators Carper and Coon

We are a Violent Nation. Congress created the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) on October 17,1962 with enactment of PL 87-838 to “conduct and support of research and training relating to maternal health, child health, and human development, including research and training in the special health problems and requirements of mothers and children..."(Sec 441).

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abuse-neglect
brain
sensory deprivation

Another Failed Mother-Infant Bond

Posted on Mon, 10/28/2013 - 20:56

PHS Surgeon GENERAL KOOP:
“…violence, which is one of the most extensive and chronic epidemics in the Public Health of this country."

James W.Prescott, Ph.D.

C. Everett Koop, M.D., PHS Surgeon General and Deputy Assistant Secretary For Health. addressed the American Academy of Pediatrics, New York October 26, 1982 On Violence and Public Health, stated some 30 years ago:

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abuse-neglect
bonding
violence

Violence: The Most Significant Mental and Behavioral Health Disorder in America and the World

Posted on Wed, 08/14/2013 - 08:03


The Role of the Paleocerebellum in Eliminating Violence in Mother-deprived Primates and Permitting Expression of Affectional Behaviors Not Possible Before Paleocerebellar Surgery.

James W. Prescott, Ph.D.

It is well recognized that Violence by Homo Sapiens throughout the World threatens species and planetary survival. Violence begins with the individual and must be understood before Cultures of Violence appear. The brain is the organ of behavior and how the brain is encoded for Peaceful or Violent Behaviors is the great challenge to Humanity.

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abuse-neglect
bonding
brain
culture
pleasure
prenatal learning
sensory deprivation
violence

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