The separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy is, to many people — liberals and conservatives alike — a viscerally repellent act.
Reports like the recording ProPublica obtained of children crying for their parents, or accounts of children in temporary foster care crying themselves to sleep every night, inspire in a lot of people the idea that something deeply wrong is happening. They make it apparent that not only are children being harmed, but they may be being harmed permanently.
It seems to be, in a word, traumatic.
But when we call family separation traumatic, what does that actually mean? What about children’s brains and their understanding of the world is broken when they’re taken from a parent?
[For more of this story, written by Dara Lind, go to https://www.vox.com/policy-and...arent-trauma-effects]
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