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“The theory based on the extant empirical literature provides a basic developmental view of why TRACEs that are directly experienced versus witnessed may show higher stability,” Weems says.

When she was eight years old, the actor Embeth Davidtz was pulled out of her home in New Jersey and flown with her South African parents to Pretoria, amid the particularly volatile years of the ...

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A divorce is seldom easy—not for the couple that divorces, but also not for their children (if they have any). However, past psychological research on how divorce affects children’s development was ...