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Kids Separated from Adults at Border are Stressed - Unexpectedly
[Ay-Pee, via Dallas Morning News]
Grab your tissues, folks.
Separated from his father at the U.S.-Mexico border last year, the little boy, about 7 or 8, was under the delusion that his dad had been killed. And he thought he was next.
I wonder where he received information leading to that conclusion?
Other children believed their parents had abandoned them. And some suffered physical symptoms because of their mental trauma, clinicians reported to investigators with a government watchdog.

"You get a lot of 'my chest hurts,' even though everything is fine" medically, a clinician told investigators. The children would describe emotional symptoms: "Every heartbeat hurts," or "I can't feel my heart."
Anybody ask them if they missed their Mommy and Daddy? Certainly, there were no leading questions asked!
Children separated during the Trump administration's follow the law "zero tolerance policy" last year, many already distressed in their home countries or by their journey, showed more fear, feelings of abandonment and post-traumatic stress symptoms than children who were not separated, according to a report Wednesday from the inspector general's office in the Department of Health and Human Services.
I suppose if you took Obama's kids away from their Mommy and Daddy, they'd be stressed, too. Even While Privilege kids, I bet.
Child psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Kliman, who interviewed dozens of migrant children in shelters after zero-tolerance took effect, told the PBS series "Frontline" and The Associated Press that the kids can move on with their lives after reunifying with parents but may never get over it.
Not to be too cold, but kids are pretty resilient, no? Maybe some of them will get over it.
As children they have night terrors, separation anxiety, trouble concentrating. As they become adults, they face greater risks of mental and physical challenges, from depression to cancer.
Cancer? Really? Maybe they should've stayed home, instead of becoming pawns of the progressives.
Among the separated children, he foresees "an epidemic of physical, psychosomatic health problems that are costly to society as well as to the individual child grown up. I call it a vast, cruel experiment on the backs of children."
I suppose I'd be a Nazi if I suggested it was their parents’ experiment?
The AP obtained a copy of the report in advance of the official release, the first substantial accounting by a government agency on how family separation under the Federal Law Trump policy has affected the mental health of children. It was based on interviews with about 100 mental health clinicians who had regular interactions with children but did not directly address the quality of the care the children did receive.
I suppose that'll be the subject of another 'report'.
"Facilities reported that addressing the needs of separated children was particularly challenging, because these children exhibited more fear, feelings of abandonment and post-traumatic stress than children who were not separated," said Deputy Inspector General Ann Maxwell. "Separated children are also younger than the teenagers facilities were used to caring for."
If only Congress had authorized and funded more facilities!
A second report Wednesday by the watchdog found that thousands of childcare workers were given direct access to migrant children before completing required background and fingerprint checks.
If only Congress hadn't assumed they'd just walk across the border to live in sanctuary cities.
The report covers a period last year when facilities were overwhelmed by the policy under which at least 2,500 children were separated from their parents. They stayed behind in border custody while their parents were taken to federal court for criminal proceedings.
Overwhelmed, you say? But not a 'crisis', certainly not! Maybe it would've been better if the kiddies had gone to jail with Mommy and Daddy?
After a federal judge ordered the children reunified with their parents, guidance on how to do it kept changing and that led to further anxiety and distress, according to the report.
Any of those kids the ones purchased in Mexico to facilitate entry?
At a minimum, each child in government custody is to receive one counseling session per week, plus two group sessions to discuss issues.
That's the same level of care for at-risk kids in the inner cities, I suppose.
But the report found that mental health staff were overwhelmed. Usually there is one mental health clinician for 12 children, but during the period investigators studied, there were more than 25 children for one clinician.
Overwhelmed, again. The adult-kid ratio is close to that of teacher-student ratios in some schools.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, said children deserve compassionate care.
Indeed. How should it compare to kids who happen to be citizens already, Senator?

There's more at the link, of course, but I've run out of tissues. I find it interesting that this front-page, above the fold 'news' was shared with a Hurricane Dorian headline, and another headline about the $90 million addition to the contract of a football running back. There's another message, there ... somewhere.


Posted by: Bobby 2019-09-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=549690