The emotional state of the mother profoundly affects the emotional state of the child because it’s transmitted hormonally. If a mother knew this, if a father knew this, if the nation knew the full impact of this, the protection a mother is given so she intern can create the most powerful nurturing ambient for her child, we might then have a completely different ballgame.

I think of Michel Odent, MD, the medical doctor from Pithiviers hospital (France), and I think rather over-statement, he said that that the immune system seemed to lock into an immutable pattern very quickly at birth of a child by their experience, their birth experience and their first experience with the outer world. That that had such a profound effect on them that the immune system reflected it after the rest of their life. And I think we’re more flexible than that by far but this does point out the fact that when the child comes into the world the reception of that child determines how they respond to that world. And this is hormonal. This is cellular. It’s biological. It doesn’t have anything to do with the child’s feeling good or self-esteem or anything else. This is a biological organism and the reception to it as it enters into the world. And in fact we find now that the effect on the child in the womb is profound, it’s enormous, that the emotional state of the mother profoundly affects the emotional state of the child because it’s transmitted hormonally. And again we’re talking about hardcore biology. We’re not talking about sweet sentiments.

If a mother knew this, if a father knew this, if the nation knew the full impact of that, then the protection of a mother to give her the most powerful nurturing ambient, nurturing ambient, in order that there might be no anxiety, no anx, no fear. We might then have a completely different ballgame from that one simple little addition.

Again the only thing I can think of is these are essentially vested, not vested interest but entrenched emotional positions or world views you might say or images of who they are. For instance the new Surgeon General appointee, I think a Black woman, said that her whole thrust as a Surgeon General or perhaps it’s head of the HEW, I’ve forgotten which, was to make sure that there would never again be a child born in America who was not wanted and would be unconditionally loved and accepted. Now there it is. That’s the whole key issue of the survival of everything that we’re talking about.  And yet to get that across immediately you have fundamentalists who sense in that something having to do with birth control or abortion and so on and so forth, ignoring that International study that came out in Europe after years of research that the unwanted child was at risk on every level. Their immune system was at risk. Their whole intellectual system was seriously, their ability to become part of a society wasn’t known and so on. In other words they were not only an enormous threat to any society cohesiveness but a tremendous drain on a society.

So we have Sweden offering both the mother and the father a years leave of absence with pay to stay home and nurture that child in the most critical year of its life and of course ample way by which unwanted pregnancies can be prevented. But here you’ve got these huge vested emotional interest and these people are willing to kill other people to have their way and to prevent such things as is happening. So why we have these deep, again, these are the deep, those two first brain structures and their initial imprinting and the way the system closes in to its defense posture and then tries to maintain the integrity of that defense posture. The fundamentalist, whether it’s a fundamental Republican, Democrat, Christian, Islamic, whatever, the fundamentalist, the one who closes into that defense posture then blocks and prevents the other. Who has a solution for that?  I know you just have to keep trying and trying.