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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"A study of more than a million Danes found that frequent moves in childhood had a bigger effect than poverty on adult mental health risk."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/health/moving-childhood-depression.html

What do you think? Also, do you think changing schools several times without moving has the same affect?[/quote]

I think Danish poverty isn’t American poverty (all Danes get health care!), so this doesn’t translate here. [/quote]

Danish cuture is also insular and outside of Copenhagen families are generations deep in their towns.  I don't think this translates well into US culture.[/quote]

Have you spent time in anyplace rural in America? Maine, Wyoming, Michigan, Maine. How do you know so much about Denmark, but nothing about America? [/quote]

I’ve spend time in both, and the cultures are just different. Even Americans in rural areas are not as insular and reserved as Danes generally, even though you could find exceptions here and there. Why is it so hard to believe that people in different countries have different cultures? Does America really need to be “the most” of everything for you? Even the most clannish and insular? [/quote]

I spent seven years living in various countries in the Middle East, so please spare me the sociology lesson. You aren’t the only person in DC who has taken a continental flight. My point, having moved from an urban area in the southeast, to a rural island in the northeast at the age of nine is that there are many insular communities generations deep in America, particularly rural America. Where I moved not having a fisherman dad and waitress mom and family in the community was socially a nonstarter. We eventually moved to a more urban area 45 minutes away, but my experience wasn’t vastly different. The way kids talked about how they moved into the community was so strange to me. Kids would say things like “I moved in 1st grade but I was born in [x part of the state]”. There was this ingrained bias against people from outside the community and then state at a very young age.[/quote]

Living in the Middle East and rural America does not make you qualified to compare Danish and American culture. Your litany of your entire life story with many identifying details shows me that you’re more interested in winning the Trauma Olympics than the empirical merits of the study. Clearly moving frequently has affected YOUR mental health; do you want a sticker?[/quote]

What are your qualifications to compare Danish and American society? Bio and research or why would we believe you.[/quote]

Nope. Don’t have to prove anything to you. And no dog in this fight. My kids are neither poor nor have they moved around at all. I don’t need to cry about my life story to strangers on the internet like some of you. Maybe a therapist would benefit you more than DCUM.[/quote]

You can’t prove anything to me because you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Your attacks on me speak volumes about your character and temperament. You’re a very angry person.[/quote]

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