Trauma: How We've Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex

Fascinating article on how our society and our lack of nurturing of our children has resulted in the current mess we are in.

"And there are about half-a-million kids in this country receiving heavy-duty anti-psychotic medications, medications such as are usually given to adult schizophrenics to regulate their hallucinations. But in this case, children are getting it to control their behavior. So what we have is a massive social experiment of the chemical control of children’s behavior, with no idea of the long-term consequences of these heavy-duty anti-psychotics on kids."

"A recent study coming out of Notre Dame by a psychologist there has shown that the conditions for child development that hunter-gatherer societies provided for their children, which are the optimal conditions for development, are no longer present for our kids. And she says, actually, that the way we raise our children today in this country is increasingly depriving them of the practices that lead to well-being in a moral sense."

I would add that extremely traumatic, drugged hospital births are also a huge component to our troubled youth.