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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 709746" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>About 100 years ago a tragic syndrome was discovered among orphanage babies where they would die at about 1 year old at alarming rates. One name for this was "failure to thrive" and it was linked to the fact that they were not held. It seems that just as there is a critical period for language there is the developmental imperative that babies be touched, cuddled, held. These infants were fed and clothed and clean. There was no indication of disease. They just withdrew and they died. (I feel pain just typing these words.)</p><p></p><p>This is why there are no more orphanages in this country but my own son went to an orphanage by another name, called a "crisis nursery." He was left there 22 months before I found him and brought him home. He crawled into my bed as often as he wanted. (Joining the rest of us: 2 boxer dogs and a cat at that time, who all slept with me in a queen bed.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 709746, member: 18958"] About 100 years ago a tragic syndrome was discovered among orphanage babies where they would die at about 1 year old at alarming rates. One name for this was "failure to thrive" and it was linked to the fact that they were not held. It seems that just as there is a critical period for language there is the developmental imperative that babies be touched, cuddled, held. These infants were fed and clothed and clean. There was no indication of disease. They just withdrew and they died. (I feel pain just typing these words.) This is why there are no more orphanages in this country but my own son went to an orphanage by another name, called a "crisis nursery." He was left there 22 months before I found him and brought him home. He crawled into my bed as often as he wanted. (Joining the rest of us: 2 boxer dogs and a cat at that time, who all slept with me in a queen bed.) [/QUOTE]
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