Thank you, Jane, for your response! I just watched the video and am left behind with more or less the same questions and some new ones on top of them, I'm afraid... ;-)
There seem to be some contradictions in what Rob says: if he mentions 'taking action', why could that action not be in the form of policy...? I know that Scotland saw the publication of wonderful, impressive documents from The Care Review . I also have a hard time understanding why we *can* say something about groups, and why we *cannot* say something about the individuals, seeing that groups are made up of individuals and group function depends on how individuals function within the groups, the way they are (un)able to cooperate with others and the trust and confidence they experience/perceive.
Fortunately, I had the offer the other day of having an online meeting shortly with someone really knowledgeable, so I hope a conversation will clear some things up a bit further.
The article (that I already downloaded couple weeks ago) I still have to read; maybe that will turn out to be helpful, too. I was curious about non-author critiques and counter-critiques and whether there are gathered somewhere, but did not find a tab or folder here for those.
I notice that I feel saddened by people responding so aggressively and negatively to the idea that we should pay way more societal attention to what happens in childhood... If you know a decent bit about stress physiology... it's not even rocket science, is it...? It's sad, that the interests of children are so structurally downplayed and backstaged. This includes the inner children in us as adults, by the way...
Thanks for video; I will watch it again and write down some points to discuss live!
