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Originally posted by motdakasha
When it comes to raising children, there really is no right or wrong way to do it, but I highly dislike how they do it.
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I gotta disagree - I supposed in an ultra-relativistic sense, there's no right or wrong way, but there are better or worse ways depending on the outcome you want. The researchers I work with are doing research in Romanian orphanages, and let me tell you there's some fucked up shit going on there. They (the Romanians, not the researchers) think there's something wrong with abandoned kids, and that's why they end up fucked up. It just doesn't occur to them that being tied down to a bed, with nothing to look at, and human contact twice a day when you're fed and changed, for the first 2-3 years of your life, is to blame for the massive disorders in the orphanage-raised kids. From what I've heard, China is a little better with their abandoned kids but still far from optimal in terms of early development.