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Christakis reports that when babies get caught up with what's playing on television, their parents are equally likely to get distracted, which limits their exchanges with their kids. It's a three-way interaction, with TV affecting both children and their parents, and the parents' detachment further impairing their children. For the first time, Christakis' group even quantified exactly the degree to which TV-viewing can cripple parent-child communication: for every hour a television was turned on, babies heard 770 fewer words from an adult, the new study found. Conversational exchanges between baby and parent dropped...
Thus, the child who is not taking part in the typical parent-child dance - exchanging smiles and glances, pointing at something of interest, seeking attention - is missing out on a lot of learning and failing to lay the foundations for more complex social behavior. Rather than become experts on social cues, as most humans are wired to do, these children, observes Klin, tend to focus on the physical world - the opening and closing of doors and the properties of inanimate objects...
Since Massachusetts has no parent-child confidentiality law, police officers who enter these homes can use anything they hear the family say or anything they observe in the house to incriminate people in that family. When parents volunteer to allow police officers into their homes specifically to make those homes safer, those families must know the potential implications of that visit...
...solution to this problem is not to revoke the Massachusetts law regarding parent-child confidentiality, but to ensure that this law is clear to the residents who agree to be searched. The track record for this type of program is encouraging, and hopefully, similar results will occur in Boston. Making it clear to residents that their behavior and words can be used against them must happen first, so that finding firearms can become a priority...
...communicate after being immobilized by a stroke won the director prize. Satrapi's beguiling autobiographical animation shared the Jury Prize (third place) with Reygadas' very demanding, even more rewarding story of a Mennonite family in Northern Mexico. The screenplay citation went to the Akim film, the story of three parent-child relationships that get sundered; and if the script has more coincidences and withheld identities than a whole season of an American soap opera, it certainly held the interest and provided a showcase for some handsome performances and a budding directorial talent...