Maternal postpartum depression is harmful to the development of the newborn, whose early socialization, cognitive development, and speech acquisition are largely in mother's hands [ 52].
History proved that it is a simplistic approach to consider all Western scholars and works as "bourgeois" without academic evidence, and this is harmful to the development of the discipline.
It is widespread in both homes and schools, despite evidence that hitting children is harmful to their development.
The prevalence of higher sodium ions (Na+) in saline conditions is harmful to the growth and development of rice plants because of the negative effect on photosynthesis that leads to a reduction in plant growth, chlorophyll content, and metabolic processes (Qados 2011; Munns and Gilliham 2015; Rahman et al. 2016).
"Institutional care of young children is harmful to children's development and negatively affects neural functioning at the most critical and unparalleled period of brain development, causing physical, intellectual, behavioral, social and emotional skill deficits and delays". Browne, Kevin (2009).
The ILO defines child labour as work that "deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development".
Growing up in detention is harmful to children and affects brain development, IHMS medical officers have consistently argued in formal communication with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, particularly when children's parents are under acute mental stress.
Most experts agree that punishment is harmful to a child's emotional development and that isolation — the defining quality of the timeout technique — is a form of punishment.
More than 100 million children are engaged in employment, often heavy and hazardous and in contravention of international conventions which provide for their protection from economic exploitation and from performing work that interferes with their education and is harmful to their health and full development.
And, even more troubling, studies show that increased screen time is harmful to children's social and physical development.
