SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN

This is the message, hidden or not, FLOTUS just gave to thousands of children incarcerated who are separated from their mothers:

This is why we care, Melania:

"In the first few days after separation, the children are expected to protest by crying and acting out in ways that 

reflect a desperate effort to secure the return of their
parents. Within a few weeks, they appear to lapse into 
despair, seemingly without hope for a returning parent. 
They show little energy or motivation to play and explore.

After less than a month or so, Bowlby observed that the children “seem detached,” Van IJzendoorn said. If the parents return, the children seem aloof and avoid the parents’ efforts to comfort and cuddle.

“It might take some months of careful, sensitive interactions to repair the damage done to the attachment relationship of the child,” Van IJzendoorn said. “The parents have failed the child, and he or she has lost trust in his or her attachment figures, and the wider social world seems hostile. … Their basic trust has been damaged.” 

-the LA TIMES