UK's "stressed kids" - reason for social problems?

   "Guardian" article -
 
   Toddlers starting at nursery after being at home since birth
   experience high levels of stress in the first weeks after
   separating from their mothers, and are still showing "chronic
   mild stress" as long as five months after their first day in the
   new environment, according to a study measuring hormone levels
   in young children.

   Levels of the stress hormone cortisol doubled even in secure
   youngsters during the first nine days of childcare without their
   mothers present, compared with their normal level at home. The
   levels fell but were still significantly higher than for the same
   infants at home five months later, even though the children (aged
   between 11 and 20 months when they started nursery) by then
   appeared to have settled and no longer showed outward signs of
   distress.

   In a further insight into the way young children react to 
   daycare - an increasingly common experience for UK toddlers as
   more and more mothers return to the workplace - a related study
   also reveals that children at nursery do not see a drop in
   cortisol levels over the day as they would at home. Instead,
   they remain "unusually aroused or stressed", and, a research
   paper to be published next spring and drawing on the cortisol
   studies concludes, they need extra time and attention at the end
   of the day to help bring them back to "emotional equilibrium"
   ready for the next day at nursery. Without that comfort from
   a parent, says the paper, the children start the following day
   "hyper-aroused", which can lead to behaviour problems or
    disobedience.

   ...

   Psychologist Oliver James, author of "They F*** You Up", said
   while having time with children at the end of the day was better
   than nothing, "much better would be to organise our society in
   such a way so that women genuinely feel valued and have status
   higher than that of street cleaners if they do want to look
   after their children".


   Lucy Ward, social affairs correspondent
   Monday September 19, 2005
   The Guardian

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,1573248,00.html

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   We related in "devices.html" how rulings elites used
   harsh treatment of children to create a confused and
   abusive under-class (`divide and rule') but, and maybe
   more seriously, how the elite become abusers, mainly
   pedophile, due to same phenomenon.

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