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It is well-known that neglect during early infancy has a strong life-long negative effect. The argument that one doesn't remember much from before age 5 doesn't
by jhncls 5y ago
It is well-known that neglect during early infancy has a strong life-long negative effect. The argument that one doesn't remember much from before age 5 doesn't impede early infancy having a huge effect on emotional and physical development. If cradling would have a net-positive effect on children, evolution would probably have spread the practice world-wide.
[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702123/
[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/neglect https://www.apa.org/monitor/2014/06/neglect
- kome 5y agocradling is not neglect, two very different things
- owenmarshall 5y agoThe paper indicates that Tajik infants are hardly neglected: they are attended to quickly if they cry, and are considered a very important part of the family and overall community and are interacted with accordingly.
- mc32 5y agoI don't think poster is claiming it's neglect. What they seem to say is while one as an infant rarely can consciously recall neglect, it does not mean that neglect has no long term effect and that a similar thing _could_ happen here. We just don't have studies one way or another, though anecdotally there does not seem to be any long term negative effects with cradling.
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- tsol 5y agoThis would be the opposite of neglect. What we do is, comparatively, neglect since we let kids run around. Good knows a certain number of our children under two injure themselves getting into trouble while parents are distracted, sometimes fatally.