Part 2 - Ghosts in the - Synod of Bishops on Family - October 2014 - Repress Unacknowledged Need for Empathy?

To be completed and posted at a later date.

Part 1 - Ghosts in the - Synod of Bishops on Family - October 2014 - Repress Unacknowledged Need for Empathy?

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2014/09/ghosts-in-synod-of-bishops-on-family.html

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Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi 

Protect Children and the Rest of the World will be Safe

Childhood Trauma, Neurobiology... Development of the Brain:

Infant Mental Health Journal, Vol. 16, No. 4, Winter 1995

Adults interpret the actions, words, and expressions of children through the distorting fitter of their own beliefs. In the lives of most infants and children, these common adult misinterpretations are relatively benign. In many cases, however, these misinterpretations can be destructive. The most dramatic example occurs when the impact of traumatic events on infants and young children is minimized. It is an ultimate irony that at the time when the human is most vulnerable to the effects of trauma— during infancy and childhood— adults generally presume the most resilience...

...Deprivation of critical experiences during development may be the most destructive yet least understood area of child maltreatment. Unlike broken bones, irreversible maldevelopment of brain areas mediating empathy resulting from emotional neglect in infancy and childhood is not readily observable.

...Profound sociocultural and public policy implications arise from understanding the critical role of early experience in determining the functional capacity of the mature adult — and therefore our society. Persistence of the destructive myth that "children are resilient" will prevent millions of children, and our society, from meeting their true potential. Persistence of the pervasive maltreatment of children in the face of decreasing global and national resources will lead, inevitably, to sociocultural devolution.

It need not be so.

Read more:

http://www.adoptionsupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Module-5-Handout-5.3.pdf