{"id":366051,"date":"2018-06-20T05:29:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/child-psychology-expert-warns-of-life-changing-damage-from-child-parent-separation-of-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T05:29:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T04:29:49","slug":"child-psychology-expert-warns-of-life-changing-damage-from-child-parent-separation-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/child-psychology-expert-warns-of-life-changing-damage-from-child-parent-separation-of-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Child psychology expert warns of life-changing damage from child-parent separation of immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cSomething must be done quickly\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>Child psychology expert warns of life-changing damage from child-parent separation of immigrants<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>19 June 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<div class=\"imageRight\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/3ec1d374-0323-468c-93da-a0439585870O\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/3ec1d374-0323-468c-93da-a0439585870O\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span>Chris Fradkin<\/span><\/div>\n<p>World Socialist Web Site <em>reporter Eric London<\/em> <em>spoke to Professor Chris Fradkin, a Fulbright scholar and expert on child psychology who teaches in California and Brazil. In January, Fradkin published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fped.2018.00009\/full\">comment<\/a><\/em><em>\u00a0on a recent study in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics<\/em> <em>titled \u201cFear of massive deportations in the United States: Social implications on deprived pediatric communities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Eric London: What is your professional opinion of the impact of the Trump administration\u2019s policy of separating immigrant children from their parents?<\/p>\n<p>Chris Fradkin: I agree with my colleague Dr. Colleen Kraft, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, who called the family separation policy \u201cchild abuse.\u201d It is a form of child abuse that is particularly affecting children of brown skin whose parents do not speak the language of the country they\u2019re seeking refuge in.<\/p>\n<p>EL: How will being separated from their parents impact immigrant children in the long run?<\/p>\n<p>CF: This will certainly affect some of these children long-term. We are talking about trauma. Scientifically, this means compromised language and speech, deficits in motor skills, and in some cases developmental delays related to this trauma. There is no other word for this other than trauma.<\/p>\n<p>There is trauma to the parents too. If the infant is physically removed from your breast and you cannot do anything about it, that mother may never see her child again. The guilt that she is going to endure is immeasurable.<\/p>\n<p>EL: What have you come across in your research that helps explain the impact of family separation?<\/p>\n<p>CF: In the 1950s, Harry Harlow ran a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/06\/19\/frad-j19.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cSomething must be done quickly\u201d Child psychology expert warns of life-changing damage from child-parent separation of immigrants By Eric London 19 June 2018 Chris Fradkin World Socialist Web Site reporter Eric London spoke to Professor Chris Fradkin, a Fulbright scholar and expert on child psychology who teaches in California and Brazil. In January, Fradkin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-366051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}