ChildUp – John ChildUp
“An important new study published in the current journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry provides evidence that a parent’s early life stress, such as abuse, emotional neglect, or emotional abandonment, lives in the parent’s body. The reactions mothers (the study is just about mothers, though fathers certainly face similar challenges) may have in the face of a child’s aggressive or clingy behavior are biologically based. It is not simply that they are hitting because they were hit.” (more)