Australia’s
senior child policy official is convinced the answer is yes. Gillian Calvert is
encouraging the Rudd government to pay women to stay home for the first two
years of their baby’s life.
Calvert argues that babies’ brain development can be
impaired if their mothers work early in their lives, disrupting the normal
connections between mother and baby. For instance, Calvert argues, “Because a
baby finds the stimulus of its mother’s voice pleasurable, it turns towards the
sound; if the experience is aversive, the baby will avoid the experience.”
Sounds to me like that’s an argument against leaving your
children with
abusive caretakers.
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