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• They Say: Abuse Changes a Child's Brain

  Researchers who had previously studied the relationships between stress responses and maternal nurturing in animals have taken their work into a new arena, looking at how human brains are affected, in adulthood, by abuse and neglect suffered in childhood. The study, carried out at McGill University in Montreal, is very small (it compared the brains of 12 suicide victims who had been abused to 12 suicide victims who had not been, against a control group of 12 non-suicide brains) but, many in the field agree, could lead to larger-scale research into how childhood trauma can cause lifelong damage to a person's ability to handle stress.  Read More... Posted Mar 02 2009, 03:26 PM by Kate Tuttle with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: bad parenting, stress, child abuse, abuse, Montreal, child neglect, mcgill university, suicide, brain, Kate Tuttle, biology, neglect, stress levels, bad mothering

• Montreal Water Not Safe for Kids, Pregnant Women!

  Several of my best friends in New York are transplanted Canadiens so I've spent a lot of time in Montreal over the years.  The city is truly beautiful.  Famous for its strip clubs, obsession with hockey, love of dark beer, and the abundant use of flannel, Montreal is now becoming famous for yet another indignity. Based on recent tests, the city of Montreal is warning pregnant women and young children to abstain from drinking tap water because of trace levels of lead.  The problem is not necessarily the quality of the water but rather the corrosion of the lead pipes that connect residences to the municipal water system. Fear not though!  According to metropolitan officials, the city is slowly replacing some of the lead pipes but retrofitting all of them will take another two decades.  So by 2027, everything should be just hunky dory, eh?  You hoser! Posted Mar 10 2007, 11:27 AM by MetroDad with | with no comments Filed under: Montreal, Tap Water