Attachment parenting, positive touch, and breastfeeding may help improve youth development and behavior
University of Notre Dame completed an interdisciplinary research study that observed impacts of current cultural parenting practices. Darcia Narvaez, professor of psychology, reports, “Life outcomes for American youth are worsening, especially in comparison to 50 years ago. Ill-advised practices and beliefs have become commonplace in our culture, such as the use of infant formula, the isolation of infants in their own rooms or the belief that responding too quickly to a fussing baby will ‘spoil’ it.”
New research links traditional nurturing parenting practices that were common in foraging hunter-gatherer societies to healthy emotional outcomes in adulthood. This research has many experts rethinking current modern, cultural child-rearing practices.
