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Reporter Heidi Davoren provides an extraordinary insight into a parenting dispute, where a mother and father come together after a Family Court psychologist harmed their family.
Ryan Cole, 31 allegedly shot Natalie Jane Frand, 34, in the head and chest as she pulled up in her car outside her house on Robb Place, South Mackay, on Wednesday afternoon.
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1)What happens in early childhood can matter for a lifetime. To successfully manage our society’s future, we must recognize problems and address them before they get worse. In early childhood, research on the biology of stress shows how major adversity, such as extreme poverty, abuse, or neglect can weaken developing brain architecture and permanently set the body’s stress response system on high alert. Science also shows that providing stable, responsive, nurturing relationships in the earliest years of life can prevent or even reverse the damaging effects of early life stress, with lifelong benefits for learning, behavior, and health.
2)Early experiences influence the developing brain.
From the prenatal period through the first years of life, the brain undergoes its most rapid development, and early experiences determine whether its architecture is sturdy or fragile. During early sensitive periods of development, the brain’s circuitry is most open to the influence of external experiences, for better or for worse. During these sensitive periods, healthy emotional and cognitive development is shaped by responsive, dependable interaction with adults, while chronic or extreme adversity can interrupt normal brain development. For example, children who were placed shortly after birth into orphanages with conditions of severe neglect show dramatically decreased brain activity compared to children who were never institutionalized.
3)Chronic stress can be toxic to developing brains.
Learning how to cope with adversity is an important part of healthy child development. When we are threatened, our bodies activate a variety of physiological responses, including increases in heart rate, blood pressure, and stress hormones such as cortisol. When a young child is protected by supportive relationships with adults, he learns to cope with everyday challenges and his stress response system returns to baseline. Scientists call this positive stress. Tolerable stress occurs when more serious difficulties, such as the loss of a loved one, a natural disaster, or a frightening injury, are buffered by caring adults who help the child adapt, which mitigates the potentially damaging effects of abnormal levels of stress hormones. When strong, frequent, or prolonged adverse experiences such as extreme poverty or repeated abuse are experienced without adult support, stress becomes toxic, as excessive cortisol disrupts developing brain circuits.
4)Early intervention can prevent the consequences of early adversity.
Research shows that later interventions are likely to be less successful—and in some cases are ineffective. For example, when the same children who experienced extreme neglect were placed in responsive foster care families before age two, their IQs increased more substantially and their brain activity and attachment relationships were more likely to become normal than if they were placed after the age of two. While there is no “magic age” for intervention, it is clear that, in most cases, intervening as early as possible is significantly more effective than waiting.
5)Stable, caring relationships are essential for healthy development.
Children develop in an environment of relationships that begin in the home and include extended family members, early care and education providers, and members of the community. Studies show that toddlers who have secure, trusting relationships with parents or non-parent caregivers experience minimal stress hormone activation when frightened by a strange event, and those who have insecure relationships experience a significant activation of the stress response system. Numerous scientific studies support these conclusions: providing supportive, responsive relationships as early in life as possible can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress.
6)Policy Implications
The basic principles of neuroscience indicate that providing supportive and positive conditions for early childhood development is more effective and less costly than attempting to address the consequences of early adversity later. Policies and programs that identify and support children and families who are most at risk for experiencing toxic stress as early as possible will reduce or avoid the need for more costly and less effective remediation and support programs down the road.
From pregnancy through early childhood, all of the environments in which children live and learn, and the quality of their relationships with adults and caregivers, have a significant impact on their cognitive, emotional, and social development. A wide range of policies, including those directed toward early care and education, child protective services, adult mental health, family economic supports, and many other areas, can promote the safe, supportive environments and stable, caring relationships that children need.
Suggested citation: Center on the Developing Child (2007). The Impact of Early Adversity on Child Development (InBrief). Retrieved from www.developingchild.harvard.edu.
providing stable, responsive, nurturing relationships in the earliest years of life can prevent or even reverse the damaging effects of early life stress.
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The members of the public who believe that children are kept within this system known as the “child protection?is in fact the “child protection Industries” where in many cases they can take children at first through Kinship care which could be the grandparents of the children and the grandfather is still, in fact, the head of the family which normal wwell-functioningfamilies or what it is seen to be is carried on as normal,a person has a motor vehicle accident and has problems socially especially when a person is forced to live in social housing dwellings and all around them is in fact anti social families,a victim will believe that after such a set of circumstances that a department would just allow the Mum and Dad to recover from the motor vehicle accident by firstly delivering a live child which child be expected to be miscarried because of the high impact accident but NO not this Child protective services,the Grandfather and grandmother is simply disregarded the children are taken to the maternal aunts and where by the children are then not allowed to contact even their mother or father unless they have someone supervising the talk between them,they dont want the child to learn that in fact the parents want the children at home,this wicked practice is known as “Parental alienation”in many cases children are alienated by one of the parents but in fact with Kinship care .Whilst it may look good in theory and for those lay people they believe that Department of Community services are doing the right thing by the children who they claim to be abused,neglected or hardly done by in fact this Department of community services or child protection are working the opposite and often it is just a money making racket wherein the case of Kinship care the parents are alienated from the entire family and the children are threatened that if they speak or attempt to see the parents that they will be taken away from the family and taken to live within Foster care or in some cases Resi Care and often they are drugged so their behaviours are kept under wraps to make their process easier.TBC
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lukesarmysupportsydneynsw/ which is about a group of parents within most communities and with what has been happening within this group it will get to a stage that no one will be safe and the parent or the family unit with be obsolete,currently the government department known as CPS child protective services have gone overboard where they are removing children for the most ridiculous reasons in some cases, but until the general public actually starts to understand and ask questions surrounding the issue everyone is a yet for this department and your children, grandchildren etc might be the next victims of “another stolen generation” I will attempt to explain a little of why we are here.
As anyone can imagine for parents and children it is a massive trauma for them mentally,physically and emotionally to have their children taken and told by a government organisation that they in fact will only see their children for 2 hours per month,it is just one stunt to alienate and break any kind of bond between mother and child so they can continue for reasons which most will not believe but unless you have walked a mile in the shoes of those parents please remain open and receptive to what we are attempting to educate you on,we need people who have not had any kind of associations with regards to this act to actually stand up and make their feelings known,if you dont believe it please ask more questions because it might just save children you know from going through the trauma of this action which occurs daily and is common practice for this department,no you dont have to be a certain genetic makeup for this to occur if you are living in the wrong area within Australia or worldwide currently you could become a statistic of this particular department.History is repeating and if you look at our history you will find that the child protection industry is often going through what they thought was a good system only to find they have failed and have actually caused a lot of damage mentally physically and emotionally for many parents and children,understand a child is not going to tell you they are hurting and until their behaviours tell a tell tale sign most won't investigate the cause and affect of the foster care system in Australia and the world..
Many people are of the belief that if the state CPS take children that there is always a legitimate and good reason for them to become involved, I’m here to tell you that could be nothing further from the truth in many cases but I am focusing on those who have been slandered and the parents have been pulled apart and their children removed for the most simple of excuses, child protective services over the years have proven to be negligent whilst there are those families who do find being a parent difficult and too often the child/children are abused in horrific ways if not murdered or sexually abused which is minimal and of course foster care is necessary.
Many of the parents or mothers who are within our groups are victims of domestic violence through no fault of their own and the children are in kinship care where the victim is segregated from not only their children but from their entire family. Don't believe me? Well go and sit outside a children's court and speak to some of the up to 60,000 parents who are suffering along with their children with being given a life sentence.I hear you say “but they cant take a child for nothing” but they can and they do,if you doubt anything which you might hear I invite you to participate within the blogs in our groups Luke's army support Sydney NSW and Luke's army....
The Lukes Army story is surrounding the death of a 2-year-old child who was in the care of an elderly lady and he was actually injured as the overload of children from unjustified removals and Luke was taken to an elderly woman who did not actually want extra children as she already had her quota which is generally 2 under 2, 2 under 4, and 2 school age.. but she took him on as anyone could imagine how could you say no to a little guy like Luke but it proved that everyone even foster carers need support and she became unwell and Luke was injured and actually had serious injuries which lead to his death and his Dad Michael initially started the Luke's Army for the support of parents and families who are going through the grief of having their children removed and or from the death of their children.....The emotions and feelings are the same as grief when children are removed so it is not anything to be made light of,it is a very damaging practice and of parents have committed su***de after feelings of hopelessness from the removals so I guess you could say that the governments biased opinions,the slander and the perjury they commit is killing people but they refuse to see their actions as actually killing anyone but it is in reality.....Life is not a dress rehearsal with the children and parents only have one lifetime but do you believe anyone has the right to take your children and keep them?I dont believe so, I believe everyone has the capacity to recover if it is the reasons of active drug addiction as why these children are taken from the parents but the “cash for kids” is way to inviting for many of them and they simply dont care for what they are doing...
If the parents were in care themselves often this gives the department a reason to remove but it is not on a case by case basis they purely take some of the children because the mum was in care which from all accounts is very sad for all as this is saying that the cycle will never be broken and who is to say that?
Please make your opinions known to the powers that be and if you need some addresses to post an email or communicate your feelings regarding this issue we will provide you with whatever details you need...We are all volunteers and our time which is devoted to those who are often so deeply affected mentally and emotionally by just the act of removal but we as older members of the groups are here of our own volition to give support to these parents...we are not subsidized by anyone but ourselves and basically the members have lost their world so as anyone can imagine they have lots of time on their hands in many cases..The department will go into a hospital and remove newborn children from around 6 hours old so please don't ever think that you are exempt from this happening to you because anyone can have an accident which often will be a reason they will take children,but they will not state the truthfully they will build lies upon the actual life story of the parents what could be an accident needing an operation can turn out to be the family being completely torn apart because the parents might need medication for chronic pain from a motor vehicle accident and so they put down on their documents that the parent is a drug addict which is far from the truth,yes there are addicts but not all are addicts who take medication and again even if they are involved in drug taking these addicts do recover and it is only when people are educated that things will change and un-necessary removals will cease....please support our parents in this cause because you are in fact supporting many children who have been unlawfully removed but legally kidnapped by the states of Australia.....
The children are alienated from the mother and father,their way is to keeep the kids away from you as much as they can in the first 2years so they break the bond between mother and father and child an this makes their process easier,it sounds harsh but you are not dealing with normal people these are Controlling narcissists and then often the child will end up with Borderline Personality Disorder after the trauma of being taken from their main care giver but you shoulder all of the blame ...... at around 8 years of age which is the worst age for a child as they are bonded often very closely with their Mum or care giver and so they are placed within the confines of the Child Protective Services sentence until the age of 18 years,the foster children (as they are labeled) often feel as though they are on a parole and through no fault of the parents the family workers currently in NSW are finding their position really difficult simply because they are running out of children in the homes for them to support and so we might find unemployment of a lot of people who have been the main supports for these families prior to cps/facs/cps taking them from the bio logical parents but now I have heard it said the department is attempting to have control of these children until 23 years of age with the children being unable to have a voice or a say in where they would like to live and simply being traumatized and see themselves as having this department treating them as though they are parolee’s for some kind of crime with what they call OOHC (Out Of Home Care) where they are given a parole officer and they are constantly monitored and threatened that if they do attempt or try and speak or see their parents they will be moved to a place and with people who they don’t know and this is even supported by these powers that be who run the establishment. Why are children dying,sold for sex,placed in homes where they are known as RESI or Residential Care where there is a house parent often a mere child themselves are left to look after these children with a small budget all too often see’s these children in Resi Care as they call it often neglected simply because they limit the funds or even the basic food and clothing shoes etc.I doesn't take a professor to do the maths on this and from all accounts all these people are oing iss trafficking in children and if Australia and in fact the world dont awaken and stop trusting these corrupt government departments im unsure whats going to happen,your kids are not your kids cause at any time these people can come along and take your your grandkids or someone close to you...many people are persuaded with money.....
Children are dying because of the lack of parental care, of course, they are not cared for appropriately and the children simply are afraid because this “Gubba ment man ” comes a long giving orders and making statements like these kids have committed crimes and the parents are sentenced along with their children and a recipe for su***de and drug use is born with some of these inappropriate people running these establishments ....
