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Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And I'll just add this because I think we'd be remiss if we didn't. One of the challenges about families breaking up is that oftentimes women and children are left in poverty. And poverty is a huge stressor. Poverty changes the brains of children.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And I'll just add this because I think we'd be remiss if we didn't. One of the challenges about families breaking up is that oftentimes women and children are left in poverty. And poverty is a huge stressor. Poverty changes the brains of children.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And I'll just add this because I think we'd be remiss if we didn't. One of the challenges about families breaking up is that oftentimes women and children are left in poverty. And poverty is a huge stressor. Poverty changes the brains of children.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And so this is where like beyond the behavioral things that we're talking about and the socializing influence that we're talking about, if we could have kids and women not live in poverty, then... I think we would see different outcomes.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And so this is where like beyond the behavioral things that we're talking about and the socializing influence that we're talking about, if we could have kids and women not live in poverty, then... I think we would see different outcomes.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And so this is where like beyond the behavioral things that we're talking about and the socializing influence that we're talking about, if we could have kids and women not live in poverty, then... I think we would see different outcomes.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And if we were to hold that statistically, account for that statistically, I think that we would be making different decisions, but also we would hold a different viewpoint about this.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And if we were to hold that statistically, account for that statistically, I think that we would be making different decisions, but also we would hold a different viewpoint about this.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

And if we were to hold that statistically, account for that statistically, I think that we would be making different decisions, but also we would hold a different viewpoint about this.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Yeah, I think those variances need to be separated, accounted for, or their interactions need to be examined. But at the end of the day, we don't want kids to be hurt. Obviously, that's never going to be good for a kid's life. And living in a home where everything is about love withdrawal and control, social control and the like, that's also not healthy.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Yeah, I think those variances need to be separated, accounted for, or their interactions need to be examined. But at the end of the day, we don't want kids to be hurt. Obviously, that's never going to be good for a kid's life. And living in a home where everything is about love withdrawal and control, social control and the like, that's also not healthy.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Yeah, I think those variances need to be separated, accounted for, or their interactions need to be examined. But at the end of the day, we don't want kids to be hurt. Obviously, that's never going to be good for a kid's life. And living in a home where everything is about love withdrawal and control, social control and the like, that's also not healthy.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Terrible. They are so unwell and they're so poorly treated. And especially right now with the current pandemic,

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Terrible. They are so unwell and they're so poorly treated. And especially right now with the current pandemic,

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Terrible. They are so unwell and they're so poorly treated. And especially right now with the current pandemic,

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Okay, so we'll talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual students are bullied at higher rates than heterosexual students. But again, the context matters. So if you're in, let's say, a performing arts school where there's an over-representation, you're not going to be as bullied. It gets back to enumeration, that sort of thing, and also what the culture of the school is.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Okay, so we'll talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual students are bullied at higher rates than heterosexual students. But again, the context matters. So if you're in, let's say, a performing arts school where there's an over-representation, you're not going to be as bullied. It gets back to enumeration, that sort of thing, and also what the culture of the school is.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

Okay, so we'll talk about lesbian, gay, bisexual students are bullied at higher rates than heterosexual students. But again, the context matters. So if you're in, let's say, a performing arts school where there's an over-representation, you're not going to be as bullied. It gets back to enumeration, that sort of thing, and also what the culture of the school is.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

But on average, they're not treated well. They're bullied at higher rates for sure. And trans youth are particularly vulnerable. And also their mental health is off the chart. Like their poor mental health is higher than anything I've seen in my career. So we have this really massive study where we're following hundreds of thousands of kids in Ontario.

Modern Wisdom
#902 - Dr Tracy Vaillancourt - The Science Of Childhood Bullying & Adult Mental Health

But on average, they're not treated well. They're bullied at higher rates for sure. And trans youth are particularly vulnerable. And also their mental health is off the chart. Like their poor mental health is higher than anything I've seen in my career. So we have this really massive study where we're following hundreds of thousands of kids in Ontario.