"Science is helping us to understand how love and nurture by caring adults is hardwired into the brains of children," notes Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, in the foreword to The 1001 Critical Days.
Most vulnerable are elderly and young children, notes James Hughes of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
In recent decades, however, farm families have been having fewer children, notes Robert Ouellette, employment coordinator at Agricarrières, an organization that promotes careers in farming.
"Generally the crowd consisted of mothers with their young children," notes Jamie Bernstein, a graduate student in public policy at the University of Chicago who witnessed part of the event.
Consensus alert: both women laud Canada's experiment of discouraging bullying by young males in high schools by bringing in parents and their infant to high schools to teach empathy, "which is as important as anything we can do for our children" notes Arianna.
As Save the Children notes in a paper published this month, we've succeeded in delivering a full package of most basic childhood vaccines to four out of five children born on the planet, but nearly 20 million children remain incompletely immunized.
