John Kerry: “This is really the most important work we can do in America today: pay attention to our children. All across this…”

“This is really the most important work we can do in America today: pay attention to our children. All across this country, on a daily basis, we pick up a newspaper and read a headline about trouble that comes from children who are not structured in their lives in the course of a day, who don't have the care they ought to have at the earliest stages of their lives. Every bit of pediatric, psychological, psychiatric, early child development evidence that we have in this country indicates that the first years of a child's life are absolutely the most important in the development of that child. You could literally have a brain that is 25 or 30 percent larger, based on the appropriate nurturing, attention, problem-solving, love, and focus that children get in the earlier stages. Why? Because that is when the brain connections are being made. We know this scientifically beyond any doubt whatsoever.”