Thanks for linking to a very interesting article. This bit is from further down:
“Carrion has compared the MRI brain scans of highly stressed children, including those who live amid violence, to those of healthy youngsters. They showed overall decreased brain volume in children with high cortisol levels. Key areas responsible for complex learning also were smaller. The work, among the newest findings in the field, is still in its early stages and needs more development, but some scientists consider it significant.
Researchers like Carrion believe that — in a child who can’t sit still in school, or is so agitated that he or she throws a chair — the brain is so busy fending off stress that other key areas don’t develop properly. Carrion’s scans of stressed children found a smaller prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for executive functions such as attention span, planning and organizing, goal-setting and behavior control. Carrion also gave the stressed children attention and memory tests — and the prefrontal cortex was not as active.
Other brain scan studies showed stunted growth of the hippocampus, which may inhibit a child’s ability to form new memories, learn or control emotions. The symptoms were worse for kids who experienced trauma more directly, Carrion said.”
This could explain a lot about the problems found in urban cores. The question remains. What is a realistic way to break this pattern in a free society?
People need to get off the generational welfare state treadmill; when someone doesn't have the excitement and satisfaction working and producing, they go stir crazy. Crippled, wasted mines and lives, that's what progressives have done to the black family - and they're working on doing this same thing to the entire country.
The Left has created war zones in poor neighborhoods but their fellow progressives prefer to ignore that and write stories instead about traumatized children in other countries (and Hollywood celebrities make well publicized adoptions to show that they care).