“If a pregnant mother experiences acute or chronic stress, her body will manufacture stress hormones (including adrenaline and noradrenaline) that travel through her bloodstream to the womb, inducing the same stressful state in the unborn child."
Verny goes on to say, “Our studies show that mothers under extreme and constant stress are more likely to have babies who are premature, lower than average in weight, hyperactive, irritable, and colicky. In extreme instances, these babies may be born with thumbs sucked raw or even with ulcers.”
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Based on these concepts, the Center developed five key questions to ask ourselves when “doing” media. Again, they will guide our inquiry at many points in this book:
1. Who created this message?
2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
3. How might different people understand this message differently than me?
4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
5. Why is this message being sent?
Yaşadığımız çağ için bir uygarlık krizi tarifi yapılıyor. Evet, tam da öyle… Bir uygarlık krizinin orta yerindeyiz.
There are other reasons to consider nineteen or twenty as a minimum age for starting the pill. One has to do with the effects of the pill on depression and suicide risk, both of which are much higher for adolescent women (ages fifteen to nineteen) than women twenty and older. This tells me that the still-developing adolescent brain—in addition to the fact that it’s still developing—might not be well equipped to deal with all the psychological changes that seem to be initiated by the pill. We don’t yet know enough about why the adolescent brain is so sensitive to these changes, and until we do, caution is in order. This is especially true if you have a personal or family history of depression. Your mental health is too big of a deal to leave to chance. It seems like a good idea to consider alternative means of birth control if you are younger than twenty with a family history of mood disorders. No more women should lose their lives from their birth control pills, and the research suggests that taking them at the age of twenty or older is one way to significantly reduce the likelihood of the incredibly tragic outcome of suicide.
For example, “boys” with congenital androgen insensitivity syndrome—which is a rare disorder that makes male bodies unable to read testosterone signals—are completely indistinguishable from girls to the naked eye. Those who have this disorder, despite having a Y chromosome (which is the chromosomal calling card for being male), grow up looking like girls, acting like girls, and thinking like girls.