Some kids are well-behaved, tidy and mannered. But some are just mischievous, rebellious and even evil. In this article, we focused on how some children are just born that way, where aggression, violence and even cruelty to animals are seen. Professor Mark Dadds from the University of New South Wales has done research about children, especially boys, regarding these issues.
Dadds's work with these ''cold'' children contributes to a body of research trying to map what Harvard experimental psychologist Steven Pinker calls ''the moral instinct'' - finding the neurological clues that switch on empathy.
In his studies, he sets up a playroom for the boy and his mother and tell the mother to show her love to her son as he focused on their eye contact. He found that children having an unemotional traits or being callous towards others, did not gaze directly back to their mothers.
the cold children did not return their mother's gaze, and did not seem to respond to their love - and it was apparent even in children as young as four.
After reading this article I just cannot believe how human kinds are shaped in such an early age, and in this case where children has started to show traits of misbehaviour and defiance, while they are having problems reading people's emotion. Besides that, I've read another article about two young boys murdering a toddler in Britain back in 1993, where the case has stunned the whole country. The boys showed no sympathy or emotion as they prepared to kill the young child, and this is just appalling to think of.
Who could imagine life would be when after your wife has got a cancer, the newborn child of yours are also having cancer as well? In this piece of reporting, we get to meet the Mum and the daughter, who are both having different cancers, and look at how the young family strive for their daily lives.
Being the man of the family, Mike, has to cope with two of his loved ones over cancers, and the ongoing battle , both emotionally and physically. It is a very big burden to carry as one of your family members are suffering from cancer, but now there are 2 of them. Imagine the pressure and stress you'd have to deal with every single day. And the pain and ongoing treatment for mum and their daughter. He said, "I'm at risk of losing both of my family members, the two most important people in my life." Indeed, the hardest period for the whole family, where the mother was already physically drained because of chemotherapy, and yet there is still a sick daughter to take care of. Dad could only help out with daily chores and emotional support, and yet, he couldn't cure them.
Although the type of cancers the mother has is different from the daughter, it is rare that 2 of the family members are having cancers.
This isn't the first time cancer has struck two members of a family at the same time. Fathers and sons have dealt with dual prostate cancer diagnoses, and mothers and daughters have fought breast cancer side-by-side.
This is a very heart-wrenching story to read, and I learnt that the strong family bond is very important in a situation like this, because not only you have to deal with the disease alone, there are the sadness and hopelessness of one's feeling has to look after. I wish the very best to the family, and other families who happened to suffer in similar cases like this.
D.
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