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Social practices and cultural beliefs of modern life are preventing healthy brain and emotional development in children, according to an interdisciplinary body of research presented recently at a symposium at the University of Notre Dame.
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"Breast-feeding infants, responsiveness to crying, almost constant touch and having multiple adult caregivers are some of the nurturing ancestral parenting practices that are shown to positively impact the developing brain, which not only shapes personality, but also helps physical health and moral development," says Narvaez.Studies show that responding to a baby's needs (not letting a baby "cry it out") has been shown to influence the development of conscience; positive touch affects stress reactivity, impulse control and empathy; free play in nature influences social capacities and aggression; and a set of supportive caregivers (beyond the mother alone) predicts IQ and ego resilience as well as empathy.
The United States has been on a downward trajectory on all of these care characteristics, according to Narvaez. Instead of being held, infants spend much more time in carriers, car seats and strollers than they did in the past. Only about 15 percent of mothers are breast-feeding at all by 12 months, extended families are broken up and free play allowed by parents has decreased dramatically since 1970.
On the other side, there's hand-wringing about helicopter parenting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @04:22PM
"the drone is given the destination and the targets, and will do the rest fully autonomous?"
Hah. As if anyone will take care to ensure the drones don't kill the wrong person. There will still be casualties because those funding the operation won't do enough to ensure the drone is careful not to kill the wrong people or not to destroy a building full of people just because of one target. Drones only do what they're told and if the software on them is poorly made because no one cares enough to bother to ensure it's well written and doesn't make as many mistakes then mistakes will happen.