Word: solnit
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...value system at that time and now has always been that children are extremely important and valuable," says Dr. Albert J. Solnit, former director of the Yale Child Study Center. "That was a social value she expressed in her words and actions. It was the highest priority...
Clinton took a year off from law school in order to study at the center where, according to Solnit who supervised much of her work there, she participated extensively in conferences, discussions and research...
Various child-development experts weighed in with their views in amicus briefs to the court. Moving the baby now, wrote Professor Solnit, who is also a senior research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center, could pose a grave risk to her development. In his clinical work, Solnit has found that for a child so young, being removed from a home and placed with people who, however loving, are strangers to her can lead to "a loss of intellectual capacity." The hour-to-hour, day-to-day experiences of the first two to three years of life, he argues...
...secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino custody, evoking an enormous public outcry. "The best interests of the child were totally ignored," says state mental-health commissioner Dr. Albert Jay Solnit. "What was worshipped was the technicality of law and the mystique of blood ties...