“Do you know what happens when a baby cries and nobody comes to comfort it? It learns from the earliest moments of its life that its voice, its needs, its comfort and happiness don’t matter. Neglected children learn that no matter how loudly they cry, no one will help. Even worse, they learn they don’t deserve to be helped. So they stop crying. They stop asking. It’s heartbreaking. “And if babies aren’t hugged, if they don’t get that physical contact early on, their emotional and social development is thwarted. It’s been studied and proven across most sentient species. We need touch. It’s
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