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The Judicial-Moral Mind: An appeal to the American Academy of Pediatrics

The Morality of Pain and Pleasure in human relationships defines the Morality of Human Behavior, which is forged during early life experiences. Aristotle (c.350 B.C.) appreciated the reciprocal relationship between pleasure and pain, and recognized that a compulsive search for bodily pleasure originates from a state of bodily discomfort and pain: ‘the care of the body ought to precede that of the soul." (Politica); and "Therefore, the highest good is some sort of pleasure, despite the fact that most pleasures are bad, and, if you like, bad in the unqualified sense of the word." (Nichomachean Ethics, Book 7).

The genital mutilation of children (Circumcision, male and female) is the first moral lesson taught our children: Pain (Violence) is a moral good that is carried throughout life. Moses Maimonides' in The Guide of the Perplexed (circa 1190) stated. “The bodily pain caused to that member is the real purpose of circumcision” (III: 49) and prepares the infant/child for a life of violence and helps define a culture of violence—a Crime Against Humanity. http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Levy1945.html
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Our_Two_Cultural_Brains.pdf

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) will hold its 2011 National Conference & Exhibition from October 15-18, 2001 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. It is timely and urgent that at this meeting the AAP addresses the genital mutilation of children, as an act of torture and mutilation, which is a Crime Against Humanity.

Dr. Judith Palfrey, M.D., Past President, American Academy of Pediatrics was compelled to renounce the AAP Bioethics Committee’s policy statement on Ritual Cutting of Female Minors with the following statement: ”The AAP does not endorse the practice of offering a "clitoral nick”. This minimal pinprick is forbidden under federal law…” (17 May 2010).
http://mgmbill.org/usfgmlaw.htm
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/125/5/1088.full/reply#pediatrics_el_50189

Judge J. Flaherty (1978). In The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Civil Division. McFall v Shimp, stated in his OPINION: "Forceable extraction of living body tissue causes revulsion to the judicial mind. Such would raise the spectre of the swastika and the Inquisition, reminiscent of the horrors this portends... An Order will be entered denying the request for a preliminary injunction”;; and I would add the Moral Mind. http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/McFall_v_Shimp.pdf

This is particularly the case when the primary beneficiary are other children, e.g. in Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) that affects only about 2% of the population of male newborns and where better and safer treatments are available; and where surgery has never been historically demonstrated to control for infectious diseases, e.g. HIV/AIDS.

A letter has been written to Lewis R. First, M.D., Editor, PEDIATRICS (1 October 2011) requesting his support in the education of the Pediatric Community concerning these issues by bringing attention to Pediatricians the PETITION TO THE WORLD COURT, THE HAGUE.

This letter to Dr. First and the PETITION TO THE WORLD COURT, THE HAGUE is attached for review by the Pediatric Community.

Click HERE.

It is not my personal feelings.
Empirically, scientifically, all genital mutilations are torture and are affirmed as such by the "equal protection clause" of the 14th Amendment. This important 'equal protection clause' is not being equally applied. Genital mutilation is a crime when applied to females but not to males, and this discrepancy is not being recognized by the Genital Integrity Movement.

It is not so clear that this failure to recognize the relevance of the 14th Amendment to genital mutilation can be found in the sensory deprivation model for violence and the theistic religious foundations that support genital mutilation that was opposed by the early Christians.

My cause is placed in the The General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948 that adopted and proclaimed the UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;
specifically; Article 5 of said Declaration affirms that: "NO ONE SHALL BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE OR TO CRUEL, INHUMAN OR DEGRADING TREATMENT OR PUNISHMENT;

and the U.N. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD (November 20 1989)
* ARTICLE 37. TORTURE, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND DEPRIVATION OF LIBERTY, which states that States Parties shall ensure that:
a) No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

This fundamental foundation has been abandoned by the Genital Integrity Movement, which is evidenced by its complete absence in their various testimonials opposing circumcision; and in Georganne Chapin's rejection of this history in her testimony and in her communication to WHO Director General Dr. Chan.

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James W. Prescott, PhD

Responding to Touch the Future and National Institute for PLAY’s important PLAY SCIENCE DVD:

Creative play is the foundation for social-political freedom and liberty which is not possible when abnormal brain development is induces by a failure of affcctional bonding in the maternal-infant –child relationship.

Depression, stereotypical rocking behaviors and compulsive stimulus-seeking behaviors, all produced by sensory deprivation to the developing brain that is induced by failed maternal-infant/child affectional bonding, robs the developing offspring of the capacity to engage in touching and body movement that is essential for creative/spontaneous play; and to later development of behaviors associated with personal freedom and liberty.

Violence, particularly child abuse, is another destructive consequence of these early life experiences that prevents the development of creative/spontaneous play, which is the foundation for social-political freedom and liberty.

Figure 1, a photo montage, illustrates the pathological emotional behaviors induced by early
deprivation of physical affection. Figure

2 illustrates the avoidance of physical contact with other animals and humans in mother-deprived monkeys; and positive affectional behaviors in monkeys reared with their mothers.

Table 1 presents how our Two Cultural Brains are formedby Pain and Pleasure, which determines the kind of Culture we become.

Explore the full essay

OPEN LETTER TO FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA

ON THE HIGH RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMPAIRED BREASTFEEDING BONDING AND INFANT MORTALITY NOT ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE SURGEON GENERALʼS CALL TO ACTON TO SUPPORT BREASTFEEDING 2011; CALLS FOR WEANING AGE OF EVERY INFANT/ CHILD BE RECORDED AND PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE IMMUNOLOGICAL RECORD BY THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS, CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION; AND ESTABLISH BY LAW THE GENDER EQUALITY OF REPRESENTATION IN THE CONGRESS.

The excess health risks associated with not breastfeeding are well known and acknowledged by The Surgeon Generalʼs Call to Acton to Support Breastfeeding 2011 but the psychosocial effects are little mentioned except to note the enhanced feeling of bonding by breastfeeding with no mention of its powerful relationship to infant mortality (p.3). Child Obesity, not mentioned, is a lesser health risk than infant/child mortality.

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/breastfeeding/calltoactiontosupportbreastfeeding.pdf
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/IM_BF_Homicide_Stats_Update_2010.html

The 2010 AAP Policy Statement: Child Fatality Review. Pediatrics 2010; 126; 592-596
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/126/3/592.pdf states:

The preventable death of a child is an unparalleled tragedy for a family. Similarly, a nationʼs ability to reduce child mortality rates is a measure of that society’s overall well being, and failure to address preventable causes of child mortality is a national tragedy. Each year in the United States, more than 17 000 infants and children die from injury, which remains the leading cause of child mortality in the United States.1 Add to this the number of preventable noninjury deaths, including many deaths related to prematurity, and it becomes clear that a majority of American child deaths are preventable.

Introduction

This author has initiated a dialogue on this AAP Policy Statement that can be found In Pediatrics Online. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/126/3/592

Breastfeeding Mothers are rarely violent toward their nursing infants and children which points to a solution for preventing the high infant mortality rate and its relationship to homicide.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/IM_BF_Homicide_Stats.pdf

This writer wrote DHHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on 27 January 2011, which outlined these facts with additional supporting evidence but have received no acknowledgement of this and other communications.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Lt_Sebelius_DHHS_1.27.11.pdf

Additional Commentary and Letter of 22 February 2011 to First Lady Obama HERE.

"There is a good principle that created order, light and man; and a
bad principle that created chaos, darkness and woman."
Pythagoras (circa 582-507 B.C.)

(In Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949/2009).
Gender Inequality has existed ever since human history has been written. Pythagoras has given a moral definition of being male and female that has set humanity and its civilizations on a collision course with the extinction of Homo sapiens. No species on this planet is as violent toward its females and her offspring than Homo sapiens.

There is not a theistic religion on this planet that has affirmed the full equality of the feminine with the masculine, which has set in stone the perpetration of violence against women and her children. Prescott (1989,1995ab) has reviewed this history in essays:

Genital Pain vs. Genital Pleasure: Why The One and Not The Other? “Violence Against Women: Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Gender Morality”; “OPINION: The challenge: achieve gender equality”; and “A Proposed “Bodily Sovereignty” Amendment To The U.S. Constitution”.

http://www.violence.de/prescott/truthseeker/genpl.html
http://www.violence.de/prescott/women/article.html
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Gender.pdf
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Bodily_Sovereignty_Amendment.pdf

Simone de Beauvoirʼs The Second Sex originally published in France (1949) and recently reprinted in a new translation by Alfred A. Knopf (2009) is considered the authoritative translation of her work and the leading intellectual document of the feminist cultural movement. It is the foundation for restoring full equality between man and woman that was lost with the passing of the hunter-gathers some 8,000-10,000 years ago.

A few quotations The Second Sex:

“What is a woman?” (p.5).

“The female is female by virtue of a certain lack of qualities”, Aristotle said. “We should regard women’s nature as suffering from natural defectiveness.” And Saint Thomas in his turn decreed that woman was an “incomplete man,” an “incidental” being” (p.5).

“Humanity is male, and man defines woman not in herself, but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being. (p.5).

“He is the Subject, he is the Absolute. She is the Other.3 “ (p.6)

“Why do women not contest male sovereignty?” (p.7)

Additional commentary HERE.

13 February 2011

Hi Jim,
Just want to make sure you saw this study by http://linlab.med.nyu.edu/members.html Dayu Lin at New York University that corroborates your own studies and the work you have been doing for over four decades. Here is the Nature summary of the study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7333/full/nature09736.html

Excerpt:
Immediate early gene analysis and single unit recordings from VMHvl during social interactions reveal overlapping but distinct neuronal subpopulations involved in fighting and mating. Neurons activated during attack are inhibited during mating, suggesting a potential neural substrate for competition between these opponent social behaviours.

"The mating circuit acts like a gate on the aggression circuit and actively suppresses nearby fighting neurons when there is a potential mate around," says Lin.

Peace through pleasure
Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

Thanks Susan for the reference. The reciprocal inhibitory relationship between Pain and Pleasure and Peace and Violence have been known for a long time. It is great to know that “mating circuits” actively suppress “nearby fighting neurons” in the mouse brain.

The scientific history of this relationship goes back to the 1950s with the studies of Robert G. Heath, M.D., Sc.D. at Columbia University and continued as Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University Medical School. His edited 1964 textbook The Role of Pleasure In Behavior is a classic in the field.

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James W. Prescott, Ph.D.

The essay on my BLOG, titled Sarah Palin Stokes The Fire Of The U.S. Culture of Violence describes how the dimension of Political Conservatism becomes aligned with Violence and Political Liberalism with Non-Violence. http://ttfuture.org/blog/1181 and at
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Palin_Culture_of_Violence_1.10.11.pdf

Paul Krugman has noted that there are Two Public Moralities, which reflect the Two Americas that have existed since the days of our Founding Fathers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html?pagewanted=print

These Two Public Moralities are rooted in the Pain and Pleasure experiences that form the biopsychological forces that have polarized humanity ever since the beginning of the evolution of Homo sapiens. It was Pythagoras (c.582-c.507 B.C.) who provided the sex gender equivalents of Morality: maleness with goodness; and femaleness with evil:

“There is a good principle which has created order, light and man; and a bad principle which has created chaos, darkness and woman.”[Quoted in Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 2010/1953]. Women have been equated with evil in this formulation of good and evil, which has cast a violent cloud upon humanity over the past several millennia (Prescott, 1995).

How culture answers the question: “What is the morality of pain and pleasure in human relationships” determines the life path of Peace or Violence that will be followed. Pain and Pleasure are in reciprocal inhibitory relationship with one another and provide the biological substrate for the polarization of humanity.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/truthseeker/genpl.html

These relationships are discussed in my BLOG, particularly how the Approval of Violence and the Rejection of Pleasure in Human Relationships define Political Conservatism. 

 Click HERE For Extended Commentary

James W. Prescott, Ph.D.
Institute of Humanistic Science

America is a Culture of Violence. Assassination of our political leaders has a long
history in this nation. Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin
Luther King, Jr. are in recent memory of this history and now we must add liberal
Democratic Representative Gabrielle Gifford, 8th District, Arizona, as a potential victim.
It is of more than passing interest that the victims of these assassinations represent the
liberal wing of America political thought and action. Questions must be raised as to the
origins of political/social conservatism in the genesis of these assassinations. On the
world scene we have Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito and
the variety of dictators throughout Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East—all
strove to subject “We, the People” to government tyranny.

An “agonizing reappraisal” is needed to evaluate why homo sapiens is the most violent
and destructive primate on this planet; why religious warfare has dominated the socialpolitical
landscape of home sapiens; why “liberals” are rarely assassins which is
occupied primarily by those of authoritarian/conservative social/political ideology.
In pursing the investigation of the attempted assassination of Representative Gifford we
need to ask why her and not Republican Senator Jon Kyle of Arizona, a far more
significant and powerful political conservative figure than liberal Democrat
Representative Gifford, was not targeted for assassination.
Full Text Found HERE

It is matter of record that Sarah Palin has evoked many images, verbal rhetoric and
graphic visual imagery of violence in her political speeches and campaigns. Her use of
the Crosshairs against her political opponents that is represented in the following
Figure 1 that targets liberal political Districts are illustrative of this effort. Crosshairs
mean one thing—to kill- and the next step is pulling the trigger. This use of violent words
and visual imagery can only stoke the fire of violent political opposition, which we see in
the attempted assassination of Representative Gifford, one of the Districts targeted for
assassination.

E. J. Dionne Jr., in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece (1.10.11), quoted Representative
Giffords: "We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list," she said, "but the thing is that the way
she has it depicted has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district. When people do
that, they've got to realize there's consequences to that action." That consequence was
pulling the trigger.

“Mother Grizzly” is another example of the use of violent imagery in conveying a political
message by Sarah Palin.

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS
A Washington Post story (1.9.11) on the shooting reported: “On YouTube, Loughner's
profile listed Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's "The Communist Manifesto" and Adolf
Hitler's "Mein Kampf" among his favorite books”, which provides an obvious motivational
linkage for the shooter in Tucson, AZ, via the neocortical cognitive brain.

There are, however, other motivational factors that are rooted in early life experiences of
infancy, childhood and adolescence, which form the subcortical emotional, social,
sexual brain that is first in evolution and development, which need to be investigated.

Studies have documented that nurturing; non-violent tribal cultures are characterized by
high maternal-infant/child affectional bonding with support of sexual affectional
relationships in youth and are predominately matrilineal/matrilocal in nature. The
opposite non-nurturing relationships were found to characterize the violent, warfare
cultures that were predominately patrilineal/patrilocal cultures.

Violence and Pleasure Profiles
The reciprocal relationship of violence and pleasure holds true in modern industrial
nations as well as primitive societies. This theory was tested by means of a
questionnaire given to 96 college students (average age: 19). The results showed that
students who have relatively negative attitudes toward sexual pleasure tend to favor
harsh punishment for children and to believe that violence is necessary to solve
problems. The students rated a series of statements on a scale of 1 to 6, where 1
indicated strong agreement and 6 strong disagreement. Through a statistical technique
(factor analysis), a personality profile of the violent person was developed. Table 5
(from Prescott, J.W. (1975) Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence) shows the
degree of relationship among the various statements, which reflect social and moral
values. The figures at left, known as 'loadings,' are treated like correlation coefficients.
They indicate the strength that each variable contributes to the overall personality profile
of the respondents. Values range from -1.0 to +1.0.

It can be seen that Political Conservatism has a loading of .82, which defines this
Factor 1, and accounts for 66.6% of the common relationships in this questionnaire. If
you Agree with one statement you are likely to agree with the other statements on this
questionnaire with the probability associated with the numeric figure on the left.
Similarly, for Disagreement.

This Profile has grouped the Questions into four categories: 1) Violence Approved; 2)
Physical Pleasure Condemned; 4) Alcohol and Drugs Rated Higher Than Sex; and 4)
Political Conservatism.

This Prescott Index of Conservatism can be completed by Sarah Palin and all Politicians
to determine the accuracy of this Profile of Political Conservatism and the moral
values that give it structure and function.

Political Conservatism and Liberalism is more than just a neocortical cognitive event but
whose structure and function is deeply rooted in early life experiences of Pain and
Pleasure that form the developing brain for Peace or Violence. Table 2 summarizes our
Two Cultural Brains that are formed by whether Pain or Pleasure is encoded in the
subcortical Limbic-Emotional-Social-Sexual Brain and the Neocortical Cognitive
Thinking Brain during early development—the formative periods of brain-behavioral
development.

America has created its own “Culture of Violence”, which has its many roots that are
shared by the Cultures of the World. The time is long overdue to transform our Cultures
of Violence into Cultures of Peace. Calls for civility and Words alone cannot resolve
millennia of violence that the history of human violence and treaties affirms.

References
Dionne Jr, E.J. (2011). Gabby Giffords, a tragic prophet. The Washington Post.
January 10. Washington, D.C.

Fahrenthold, D.A. and Williams, C. (2011). 22-year-0ld suspect appears to have left
trail of bizarre Internet postings. The Washington Post. 9 January, Washington
D.C.

Prescott, J.W. (1975) Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence. The Futurist April.
Reprinted: The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists (1975) November.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html

Prescott, J.W. (l979): Deprivation of physical affection as a primary process in the
development of physical violence. In. Child Abuse and Violence (Gil, D. G.,
Ed). AMS Press New York pp 66-137.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/IM_BF_H.pdf

Prescott, J.W. (1989). Profiles of Affectionate (Peaceful) v Non-Affectionate (Violent)
Tribal Cultures. The Truth Seeker July/August.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Profiles_Peaceful_v_Violent.pdf

Prescott, J.W. (l990): Affectional bonding for the prevention of violent behaviors:
Neurobiological, Psychological and Religious/Spiritual Determinants. In. Violent
Behavior Vol. I: Assessment and Intervention. (L.J. Hertzberg, et. al., Eds).
PMA Publishing NY pp. 110-142.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/Violent_Behavior_1990.pdf

Prescott, J.W. (1995). Violence Against Women: Philosophical and Religious
Foundations of Gender Morality. New Perspectives. (March/April). Hemet,
CA http://www.violence.de/prescott/women/article.html

Prescott, J.W. (1996). The Origins of Human Love and Viole
http://www.violence.de/prescott/pppj/article.html

Prescott, J.W. (2001). Along the Evolutionary Biological Trail. Book Review: Mother
Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection (S.H. Hrdy).
Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health 15(3): 225- 232.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/reviews/hrdy.html

Prescott, J.W. (2001). Only More Mother-Infant Bonding Can Prevent Cycles of
Violence. Cerebrum 3(1) Winter. Lt.Ed (re, Teicher, M.R.: Wounds That Time
Won't Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse, Cerebrum, 2001 3(1).
http://www.violence.de/prescott/reviews/cerebrum.doc

Prescott, J.W. (2002). How Culture Shapes The Developing Brain and The Future of
Humanity. Touch the Future Newsletter. Spring Prescott, J.W. (2003).
http://www.violence.de/prescott/ttf/cultbrain.pdf

Prescott (2003). Our Two Cultural Brains: Neurointegrative and
Neurodissociative Formed By Pain and Pleasure From Early Life Experiences
Encoded in the Developing Brain.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Our_Two_Cultural_Brains.pdf

Prescott, J.W. (2005): Prevention Or Therapy And The Politics of Trust: Inspiring a New
Human Agenda. Psychotherapy and Politics International. 3(3): 194-211 John
Wiley & Sons.
http:/www.interscience.wiley.com http://www.violence.de/prescott/politicsrust.
pdf
Prescott, J.W. (2010). Genital Mutilation of Children Is Torture. E-letter to the American
Academy of Pediatrics protesting the position of the AAP Committee On
Bioethics that supported female genital cutting (FGC) 29 April.
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/eletters/peds.2010-0187v1#50189
Prescott, J.W. (2010). Infant/child homicide, breastfeeding bonding and parental care.
E-mail letter to American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Child
Fatality Review: Investigation and Review of Unexpected Infant and Child
Deaths 22 September 2010 Pediatrics 104: 1158-1160
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org//cgi/content/abstract/126/3/592

10 January 2011

See Attached PDF for Tables and addational references.

The First International Symposia On Circumcision in 1989 unanimously declared that the genital mutilation of children is torture. David Levy in a published study in 1945 titled “Psychic Trauma of Operations in Children” described suicidal and homicidal behaviors in a six- year old child consequent to circumcision when he declared: “I wish I were dead” and “played numerous killing games, in which his father was the principal victim”.

Federal Law established Female Genital Mutilation as a crime (PL 104-208), March 30,1997) where the 14th Amendment states “nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”, which extends the criminal sanctions under PL 104-208 to male children, yet to be recognized by the Congress.

Dr. Judith Palfrey, M.D., President, American Academy of Pediatrics was compelled to renounce the AAP Bioethics Committee’s policy statement on Ritual Cutting of Female Minors with the following statement: ”The AAP does not endorse the practice of offering a "clitoral nick”. This minimal pinprick is forbidden under federal law and the AAP does not recommend it to its members. The AAP is steadfast in its goal of protecting all young girls from the harms of FGC.” (April 26, 2010). A plea was made to Dr. Palfrey to provide equal protection of male children from these sexual assaults.

A Petition was circulated at The 11th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights held at Berkeley CA 29-31 July 2010 that called upon Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee to enforce the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which the Obama Administration has failed to enforce, that would provide equal protection for male children given to female children under PL 104-208.

Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health, has not been responsive to pleas to provide protection for male children subjected to this perinatal-brain trauma of genital mutilation, yet to be evaluated by the NIH. (Letter of 1 October 2009 ,below).

The Genital Integrity Community is encouraged to write Senator Leahy in support of this Petition.

Supporting documents are found HERE.

James W. Prescott, Ph.D.
Director, Institute of Humanistic Science
27 August 2010

The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world, to a large or small extent, has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime, guilt ~ and there is the story of mankind. John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

Breastfeeding bonding and baby-carrying bonding are the first events of life, which the newborn/infant/child learns about love and non-violence. Love is first learned at the breast of mother and by being carried on her body ~ like in utero, where the first lessons of being connected with mother are learned. Baby-carrying is the external umbilical cord that assures that the baby is connected with mother, and breastfeeding bonding for 2.5 years, or longer, has been found to be essential for optimizing brain-behavioral development for the prevention of depression and suicide, which makes possible peaceful, harmonious and egalitarian behaviors later in life possible.

These two behavioral measures of maternal-infant/child affectional bonding: 1) baby-carrying during the first year of life and 2) breastfeeding for 2.5 years or greater are the singular developmental events that can PREVENT infant mortality and suicide in the teen and adult years of life. These early life events form the foundation for the neurointegrative brain (joy, happiness and love) as opposed to the development of the neurodissociative brain (depression, alienation, homicidal and suicidal violence).

These Two Cultural Brains are formed during the early years of brain-behavioral development, which makes possible sexual affectional bonding relationships that reinforce the Neurofunctioning Brain, Egalitarian and Harmonious Relationships. The following data are provided In support of this reality.
http://www.violence.de/prescott/letters/Our_Two_Cultural_Brains.pdf

Baby-carrying bonding was found to predict with 80% accuracy the peaceful and violent behaviors ("killing, torturing, mutilation of enemy captured in warfare") in 49 tribal cultures distributed throughout the world. 100% prediction of Peaceful or Violent cultures was possible when youth sexuality was permitted or punished was added as a predictive variable (Prescott, 1975,1977, 1979,1990, 1996, 2005).

Weaning age of 2.5 years or longer in 26 tribal cultures was found to be characteristic of 77% (20/26) of tribal cultures rated low or absent in suicide. 82% (14/17) cultures with weaning age 2.5 yrs and greater and support youth sexuality are rated low or absent in suicides (Prescott, 2005).

Baby-carrying during the first year of life and weaning age of 2.5 years or longer was common to 63% of the cultures studied, thus indicating the high correlation of these child rearing practices (Prescott, 1990).

TABLE 1. SUICIDE CULTURES AS A FUNCTION OF WEANING AGE, INFANT PAIN AND ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY
WEANING AGE 2.5 YEARS OR LONGER

Attached are a number of research documents, references and tables that support these conclusions.
Please review and share.

JWP