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Parent/child separation: Immediate trauma with lifelong consequences
Author(s) -
PaccioneDyszlewski Margaret R.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30323
Subject(s) - separation (statistics) , suspect , immigration , psychology , developmental psychology , political science , criminology , computer science , law , machine learning
Current U.S. policy toward immigration has ignited robust discussion about parent/child separation. I suspect most of us intuitively know that the separation of a child from their parent is harmful to the child — but how damaging and why?