Separating migrant children from their parents is a policy straight from the pit of hell. washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
“Their heart rate goes up. Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline. Those stress hormones can start killing off dendrites — the little branches in brain cells that transmit messages.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
“In time, the stress can start killing off neurons and — especially in young children — wreaking dramatic and long-term damage, both psychologically and to the physical structure of the brain.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
“The effect is catastrophic,” said Charles Nelson, a pediatrics professor at Harvard Medical School. “There’s so much research on this that if people paid attention at all to the science, they would never do this.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
