An interview which acknowledges the devastating effects of children from their parents during the hurricane Katrina disaster: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/513888?src=mp. 

To quote Dr. Susan Coates: "The first thing that is deeply shocking for an American to realize is that weeks after the Hurricane hit, there were 2000 children still separated from their parents. Even newborns were separated from their parents. It is unimaginable given our resources and psychological knowledge that it wasn't a top priority to keep children and their parents together. We have known since World War II, from the work of Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham in wartime nurseries, that separating children from their families is much, much more traumatic for them than being directly exposed to bombing. The degree to which children will be traumatized from Katrina will depend in part on the length of time that they were separated from their parents and what kinds of frightful experiences they were exposed to in the absence of their parents. This is different from 9/11, when children were reunited very rapidly with their families. There will be massive trauma for the children of Katrina who were separated from their families for much longer."

Anyone working with breastfeeding families affected by such separations would do well to read this interview.

Still nomail,

Cynthia

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Cynthia Good Mojab, MS clinical psychology, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM 
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