February 28, 2010
Many people believe that if a child is too young to remember wrongs done to the child, then it doesn’t matter. A number of such people harm innocent children and babies in misguided attempts to relieve their own pain.
However, many recent studies have led to significant new evidence showing that a child’s brain and body are damaged for life when that child is mistreated, even where the mistreatment happened when the child was too young to remember it.
Here is a brief article about a recent study showing that childhood abuse damages the DNA of the victim and leads to difficulties in stress regulation due to actual physiological damage in the body.
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/061