On Understanding Violence in America: Quotable quotes from an infant mental health specialist

Keep your eye peeled and you'll discover so much in the news about infant mental health. -gw

"It's sort of like the best kept secret of why I think America is so violent,” she says. “It's because we really don't take good care of our children at a policy, national level."
    

"So, if we can first admit as a society that infants and toddlers are adversely effected by their experiences,” she says, “and sort of not protect ourselves from the pain of that, then we can begin to look at public policy, funding and training that can alter the course."

University of Michigan researcher and infant mental health specialist Julie Ribaudo