– Gender-bending chemicals, and other toxin-induced changes
“Techo-Environmental Assaults on Childhood in America”
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The article was authored by Varda Burstyn and Gary Sampson, and published in the 2005 anthology Childhood Lost, Sharna Olfman, Ph.D, ed., as part of Praeger Publishers’ Childhood in America series. The article focuses on the special vulnerability of children to environmental toxins, with particular attention to four of the most damaging of techno-environmental dangers: persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as pesticides; agricultural hormones in the food chain; antibiotics in the food chain; and heavy metals such as mercury and lead.
Some of the praise for the book:
“This brilliant and trenchant expose´ of how American culture fails our children will enlighten parents and should be on every policy-maker’s desk. I only hope they have the guts to read and act on it!” ( Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., Educational Psychologist and author of Your Child’s Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning from Birth to Adolescence.)
“Childhood Lost…. How American Culture is Failing our Kids is an enormously important book and should become required reading for anyone who is concerned with our children’s welfare. It brings together world-renowned experts from a wide range of fields, ranging from anthropology and economics to psychology and environmental studies. Each of them writes with passion about their research and the dangers that face our children today. These essays highlight the unparalleled importance of childhood for a human being’s physical, intellectual, emotional and moral growth, and the steps that must be taken to safeguard children’s irreducible needs”. (Stuart G. Shanker, Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, York University.)
