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Davebarry109 You did miss a critical point. The misbehavior you point to can be, according to the research, the result of the stresses associated with growing up in that poverty stricken, single parent situation you cite. Born to a mother who, herself, may have been raised in a home with parents limited in parenting skills, a child does not experience the parental stress reduction behaviors. As a consequence, the stresses cause brain chemistry changes that impair the development of the brain's executive function - the part of the brain that controls behaviors. The result of the brain changes is a tendency to act inappropriately - thus the discipline issues in school. The question is not so much disciplining children in an effort to change behaviors, which does nothing but exacerbate the stresses the child is already suffering under, but to provide the kind of nuturing (the "licking and grooming" behaviors) that relieves the stresses inherent in growing up in poverty such that the brain develops in a way that the child has the cognitive ability to differentiate between proper and improper behavior. With reference to the single mothers, early sexual experience is a symtom of the impaired brain executive function, so properly nurturing young children, as the commentary suggests, should lead to fewer unwed mothers which should lead to fewer misbehaving school children.

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