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Parental love is affected not only the mental, but also on the physiological development of the child. Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that brain size beloved and abandoned child is really different. In the experiment, the researchers compared the brain scans 3-year-olds, who were brought up in different environments (in the usual family or in a shelter). Analysis has shown that a child who suffers from a lack of parental love and attention, noticeable lack of the fundamental areas of the brain. It affects the cognitive development, the ability to adapt socially and compassionate feelings of others. The lack of parental love in the first two years of life has a fundamental impact on the further development of the child.

Psychologists, not to mention parents, have long observed that kids who seem depressed tend to have trouble getting along with-and being accepted by-their peers. What the experts haven't been able to agree on is which comes first, the depression or the social difficulty. Most researchers have supposed that kids who are excluded or bullied become depressed as a result (rather than vice versa), while others have suggested that the two problems go hand in hand and are all but impossible to tease apart. A new study, published this week in the journal Child Development, provides some of the strongest evidence to date for a third theory: Kids who cry easily, express negative emotions, and show other signs of depression ultimately suffer socially because they are shunned by their peers and attract the attention of bullies. "Bullies target youth who are unlikely to fight back," says lead author Karen P. Kochel, PhD, an assistant research professor at Arizona State Universit...