Have you ever thought
that the love our moms and caregivers give us in the initials years of our lives
make a huge difference in our future outcome?
According to Professor Allan Schore, of University of California, Los Angeles, “the way a baby is
treated in the first two years determines whether or not the resulting adult
has a fully functioning brain.”
The image below
shows the enormous disparity among a brain that was fostered by its mother, who
provides it with nourishment versus a brain that was abandoned and neglected.
The study
suggests that 80% of brain cells that an individual will ever have are shaped
during the first two years after birth. This means that, if the course of
producing brain cells and connections between them goes wrong the insufficiencies
are permanent, and this result will lead the person into a “cycle of deprivation” that is lack of educational success, continual unemployment,
poverty, crime, and addiction. The reason why this is called “cycle” is because
parents of the dismissed child were also treated in the same way, so they are
repeating the action without knowing.
All this makes
me think about rehabilitation programs, whose goal is to reinsert into our
society all the individuals who have an unusual behavior. Jails, meanwhile, try
to punish people who transgress the law.
Do
you think these programs are useful in terms of integration? Do people who have
been scorned when babies are able to change this undesirable omen?
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