A six-year-old girl, who has been in MITA for a year said she was “tired of not being allowed to get outside.” “I don’t know why we are here. I asked my mom and she says we will go out soon. I want to go out now, but I don’t want to ask my mom again because she will cry,” the young girl, who is named after a flower, said. Professor Newman said children witnessing their parents in stressful situations also faced high risk of mental health problems. “Witnessing people around them deteriorating, witnessing protest behaviour, rioting, depending on what’s going on, all of those are very frightening experiences for children, so you see high rates of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in children,” she said. “But I think the question is about, given that we know this and the evidence is so clear, why are we doing this again?” h
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