I did a search to find out when children stopped being featured on milk cartons, and found this:
Milk cartons eventually stopped featuring missing children in the late 1980s, after prominent pediatricians like Benjamin Spock and T. Berry Brazelton worried that they frightened children unnecessarily. Even as they waned, however, portraits on cartons remained a potent symbol. In 1988, presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt took heat for suggesting that fellow candidate Al Gore be featured on a milk carton after he skipped the Iowa caucuses. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2012/04/etan_patz_case_why_did_dairies_put_missing_children_on_their_milk_cartons_.html
So, I checked out Dr. Brazelton and I'm seeing a lot of parallels we've seen lately, which I've bolded.
Brazelton was born in Waco, Texas. He graduated in 1940 from Princeton and in 1943 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he accepted a medical internship at Roosevelt Hospital. From 1945, after war service in the U.S. Navy, he completed his medical residency in Boston Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) before undertaking pediatric training at Children's Hospital of Boston.
*He entered private practice in 1950, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His interest in child development led to training in child psychiatry at MGH and the James Jackson Putnam Children's Center. He subsequently served as a Fellow with Professor Jerome Bruner at the *Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University, then combined his interests in primary care pediatrics and child psychiatry and in 1972 established the Child Development Unit, a pediatric training and research center at Children's Hospital in Boston. Since 1988, he has been Clinical Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus at Harvard Medical School.
*Brazelton was president of the Society for Research in Child Development (1987–1989), and of the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (1988–1991). He appeared many times before Congressional committees in support of parental and medical leave bills, and continued to work with the Alliance for Better Child Care for a more comprehensive day care bill. He was a co-founder of Parent Action and served on the *National Commission on Children.
*Brazelton appeared several times on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' and the *'Ellen DeGeneres Show'.
This here sounds a lot like Alfred Kinsey's "research":
Brazelton's foremost achievement in pediatrics and child development has been to increase pediatricians' awareness of, and attention to, the effect of young children's behavior, activity states, and emotional expressions on the ways their parents react to, and thereby affect them. For example, one of his first publications in the field of psychology was a study with Kenneth Kaye of the interaction between babies' sucking at breast or bottle and the mother's attempts to maintain it, the earliest form of human "dialogue".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Berry_Brazelton
I've always blamed Dr. Spock for how children misbehave today because of his silly time-out recommendation. Most everyone knows there's a difference between abuse and discipline, but let's not get distracted by arguing about this. Here's the info:
*Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics. His ideas about childcare influenced several generations of *parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children, and to treat them as individuals. However, his theories were also widely criticized by colleagues for relying too heavily on anecdotal evidence rather than serious academic research.
Spock was an activist in the New Left and anti Vietnam War movements during the 1960s and early 1970s. At the time, his books were criticized for propagating permissiveness and an expectation of instant gratification which allegedly led young people to join these movements—a charge that Spock denied. Spock also won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale University.
At Yale, he was inducted into the Eta chapter of Zeta Psi and then into the senior society Scroll and Key. - The oldest secret society at Yale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock
Dr. Spock's second wife was 40 years his junior.
I find all of this very strange. We have Connecticut (Sandy Hook) and Cambridge connections and two doctors who were heavily interested and involved with newborn and child psychology, elite universities, secret societies, a man who married a woman much, much younger than himself, strange research that resembles pedo activities, and child psychology that may have been related to MK Ultra, but more research is needed. All of these details scream Pizzagate. Please help dig into these men and any colleagues they worked with.
It sure seems like bullshit to hide missing children's ads because it would scare children. Maybe they were involved with the cults themselves.
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carmencita ago
Since you posted the Etan and Milk Carton link I wanted to research. Found this about ICMEC and milk cartons and something very frightening that they are pushing about Missing Children.
http://www.freerangekids.com/group-that-put-missing-kids-pictures-on-milk-cartons-now-says-dont-teach-kids-stranger-danger/
On Good Morning America last week, a spokesman for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children — the people who put the missing kids’ pictures on the milk cartons without bothering to explain that the vast majority were runaways or taken in custody disputes, not nabbed by predators — told parents NOT to teach their kids stranger danger.
And actually, NCMEC told me that, too, when I interviewed them for my book — I quote them. But it always felt like they were talking out of both sides of their mouth, because when they were interviewed by OTHER sources, they kept warning about all the danger out there.
Dr. Marty Klein, whose Sex, Culture and Intelligence blog’s motto is “Changing the Way People, Politics & the Media Look at Sex,” did the heavy lifting on why this late-date “Don’t demonize strangers” statement seems both welcome AND hypocritical:
Yesterday, Callahan Walsh of NCMEC—The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children—appeared on Good Morning America to urge parents to stop using the phrase “stranger danger”—the phrase that NCMEC itself popularized for decades. They rightly noted—finally—that most child sexual exploitation is from someone known to the child, not a stranger.
For decades, NCMEC has told parents to fear “stranger danger,” and instructed them to transmit this fear to their kids. They even got the phrase institutionalized in elementary schools.
NCMEC has been one of the single biggest drivers of parents’ fear in our lifetime. By conflating “missing” and “exploited,” they have panicked Americans into thinking the average child is “at risk” of being kidnapped. By talking about “children” they conflate the experiences of five-year-olds and 17-year-olds. According to their own website, over 90% of “missing” teens are not “missing,” they have run away. Some are no doubt living on the street and risking their health and lives, but they have not been kidnapped. In fact, over 3/4 of runaways are running away from institutions like foster homes and other social services.
THEY Are Spreading The Word That There Are Not That Many Missing Children! They Are Getting Through According To The Comments.
They are the ones that started the pictures on the Milk Cartons. I really feel this is frightening.
Enigmatic_Continuum ago
Wow! So, the milk carton thing may have been a psyop all along while the real missing children went largely ignored. Isn't it funny that they wanted the parents scared, but Spock and Brazelton wanted the milk carton photos stopped because it unnecessarily scared children.
This entire thing stinks to high hell. Mighty hard to abduct kids when they're scared of getting kidnapped, so why not ease the worry, but keep the parents scared, so the kids will eventually think their parents are being overprotective and reject the warnings their parents are giving them. Is this the ultimate reverse psychology? After all, this thread is mainly about the childhood psychology. The rabbit hole deepens.
Cc1914 ago
Wow! Now that's an eye opener ! Keeping parents scared and kids thinking we are just overly protective in turn the kids rebel and say " oh mom your too paranoid " or something like that .. wow ! This theory just made so much sense now ..
Enigmatic_Continuum ago
Yeah, it's pretty ingenious if the theory is correct.
carmencita ago
Yes, Reverse Psychology. But now they are trying to Hood Wink again. Trying to get people to believe there aren't that many Missing Children. Kidnapping is not the same as Trafficking. There are sometimes Ransoms asked for Kidnapped Children. A whole different thing. They are trying to change their tune again. As often as their socks.
adaya ago
Thanks for info on Etan Patz and Milk cartons, I heard it was Johnny Gosch. Didn't know anything about Etan.
Do think NCMEC making wrong choice about "stranger danger." I grew up in awful neighborhood. Lots of child snatchings. Posters of missing kids did look like a head on a stick warning, terrifying to other kids. So, we walked to the store in groups & instead of talking Batman vs. Superman it was fight strategies to get out of trunks, and vulnerable body parts that kids could reach. Do think it points to psyop and further possibility of fox in the hen house behavior from NCMEC to drop it completely. Especially b/c the rise of human trafficking epidemic!
carmencita ago
Believe me, we have researched NCMEC up the ying yang. They def are up to fooling the public. And, if you read the comments, the people are being fooled. So sad that people do not question anything nowadays. But then we do, so that is uplifting. Spreading this to others is how to make headway. Other Moms & Dads need to know.
adaya ago
Completely agree. Truth best present parents ever gave me, even when it was rough.
Re:NCMEC past posting...I've been thinking about collection re-posts. So much good work already done, sometimes feels hidden in jars & pockets of internet. Search Voat awesome actually, but wonder are collection posts obnoxious to users? Guess could ask for mod advice too...on reminder -remember when-icymi-link collections. So hack, but @ least sophomoric for a lurker.
Enigmatic_Continuum ago
So many different angles they're working, which they know they need in order to get to all of the kids.
carmencita ago
Exactly. Her it takes a village statement was really clever. People listened because many thought, Wow, yes we need all the people we can get to help our children. But she had different ideas.
Enigmatic_Continuum ago
Exactly. I remember a time when family lived nearby one another and you didn't have to rely on the "village" to help you with child care because your family members could help. Now, we don't know who to trust to watch our kids. Glad I don't have any.
carmencita ago
People used to watch out for all the kids on their block. Because Moms did not work. I think this was one reason they wanted the Women's Movement to succeed. Not that I don't think women should not work if they so desire. But the economy was better and allowed it. Now things are not the same and most women HAVE to work. I am a firm believer in staying home if at all possible until the children are ready for HS. This is of course sounds like a Dreamworld. As I said, if at all possible.