... --> Child mental health Attachment Residential care Trauma This book by Christine Bradley (with short contributions by four others) gives much food for thought, at a time when both mental health practitioners and policy-makers are beginning to take adverse childhood experiences seriously. The sort...

... generation of our society. Parenting has been devalued in favour of consumerism. Women are now joining or replacing men in the workplace but the gap in mothering is not being filled by a reciprocal increase in fathering. In net terms therefore our children are losing out in terms of family attachments...