Frank wrote on Nov 27
th, 2024 at 9:02am:
Many if not most Aboriginal children in remote tribal areas are set up for failure from birth by their parents and clans.
The first 5 years of a child’s life is a time for rapid brain development. The growing brain responds to the conditions around it – and these moments matter. Stimulating experiences can boost brain development and lay down the foundations for learning. What happens in the first 5 years of life has been shown to have an impact throughout life. For example, early life experiences can influence:
how a child will learn and perform in school
involvement with the criminal justice system in the adolescent years
drug and alcohol use and antisocial and violent behaviour
likelihood of obesity, elevated blood pressure and depression in 20-40 year olds
likelihood of coronary heart disease and diabetes in 40-60 year olds
likelihood of premature ageing and memory loss in older age groups.
https://www.nsw.gov.au/family-and-relationships/early-child-development/why-firs...By the time they get to school the damage is done. They are lagging behind in all areas of development, linguistic, social, moral. So truancy, malnutrition, drug and sexual abuse, violence are endemic.
They are not being set up for either a traditional, pre-contact traditional Aboriginal life nor a modern 21st century existence. They are set up for failure. Generation after generation.
"They". Always the heavy emphasis on the the "they".
But here's the facts, most Aboriginal kids are just fine, if not suffering from severe under-resourcing in their schools and communities. Children are sacred to Aboriginal communities and the overwhelming majority of the time, that proves to be perfectly the case.
It is an outlier of Aboriginal kids that are behaving anti-socially.
But say after day, and all of the hours of those days, god's waiting room here are whining about "them" and heaping on their shoulders the responsibility for all of their kin.
Not that this hasn't been pointed out before. It'll be lost in bilious attacks this time round too.