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‘Institutionalization increases transdiagnostic vulnerability to psychopathology from childhood to adolescence, a period of significant social and biological change.’ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2707957
‘Early assignment to foster care partially mitigates this risk, thus highlighting the importance of social enrichment in buffering the effects of severe early neglect on trajectories of psychopathology.’
It turns out that infant humans need to feel that they are loved & the framework for the delivery of that love is important. A very surprising finding. Next these wacky scientists will be telling us that family structure & the quality of parent-child relationships are important!
If foster care is so much better for children than forms of institutionalisation are, think how much better it must be for a child to be raised by their own biological mother & father in a stable, secure home?
Very surprised by this. I was of the impression that the family was a matrix of oppression & a means of perpetuating the white-supremacist patriarchy https://twitter.com/Advo_Katy/status/1278832548500533249?s=20
& ppl wonder why child/adolescent MH probs are burgeoning https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1267029731246997504?s=20
This is what can happen when you become completely laissez-faire about family structure. Thats the risk you take.
The evidence is pretty clear
We are not constructing our societies with the best interests of children at the fore-front of our priorities & then we wonder why they grow up to develop MH problems https://twitter.com/post_liberal/status/1237851250286157831?s=20
The link between child maltreatment & MH probs developing later on is pretty clear https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2215036617304698
& bc child maltreatment is more likely when a child is not raised by their bio parents, any society which deems it less important that a child is raised by them is taking risks with our most vital & fragile resource i.e the emotional & psychological health of our children.
Invest in child & mental health services as much as you want. If we don't, as a society, recognise the importance of what Im talking about in this thread there is only really so much CAMHS can do.
