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Edwynn -> RE: Many school districts now serving: breakfast, lunch and dinner! (4/11/2012 11:21:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: SoftBonds
Kalik, did you ever read the study of the Polish Orphanage? Regarding what happens when you don't hug/hold kids? Given what you said in an earlier post about more aggressive/less forgiving parenting of unwanted children, I wonder if that is the ultimate cause of the increased crime effect. If you don't want your kid, and are forced to have him anyway, you don't raise him to be social, and you get a sociopath...
I read some studies like what you mention years ago, maybe including that one, I don't recall.
I did have that in mind when I later delved more deeply into European history, in the process finding out that royal kids were not raised by their monarch parents, but by royal nannies, completely separated from the parents, sometimes in another country. 'Royal orphans,' as it were. I can imagine the whole environment in a royal residence would be what we today might look at as being somewhat "cold." Mom and dad were some 'familiar stranger' the kids visited as part of the parent's busy schedule.
Not that I'm qualified to make any absolute determination in these things, but this intuitively gave me at least partial explanation as to why so many monarchs were such butchers (domestic enemies being executed in the most cruel manner possible, drawn and quartered, gut ripped open and/or heart ripped out while still alive, etc.) and seemingly no compunction about beheading wives, killing brothers, child nephews, cousins, etc.
The majority of monarchs back in the day were certainly sociopaths, whatever else they were. Who knows, just a few semi-regular hugs from king/queen mom and dad at age three might have produced somewhat less sociopathic monarchs.
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