Young children who are exposed to continuous abuse and neglect can suffer damage to the brain that affects everything from their ability to learn and make a living to their physical and mental health. It ultimately costs society millions of dollars in lost productivity and expenditures for health care, education and human services supports.
Years of research show that the maltreatment of children actually causes the brain to develop differently.
Jim Hudziak, an MD and the director of the University of Vermont’s Center for Children, Youth and Families, is a researcher who has measured the impact of trauma on children.
[For more of this story go to http://vtdigger.org/2015/10/04...-stress-in-children/]
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