The First 1,000 Days
Irene CaselliA newsletter on the crucial period in which our brains and social connections are built and how they shape our future. Essays, reportages and journalistic thoughts on how we think about the youngest children and their caregivers.
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The power of stories
On a recent weekend, I came home to my son Lorenzo, who’s almost six, sobbing. I had just taken my other son León for a walk while he napped, and the tears threw me. Lorenzo was shaking, standing next to Nacho, my partner, in the garden.
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The (very recent) birth of child protection
We know just how important family bonds are for children to grow up healthily. Research shows clearly the detrimental effects of institutional care on children, and the harm that family separation in migration settings can create — especial...
Populism meets parenting
Childhood is political.
The decisions about who has a child, when, and how go far beyond personal choices. Authoritarian and populist politicians the world over are despairing over falling birth rates. They are trying (and often succeeding...
Lessons from a ‘no-go’ neighbourhood
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is a tidy, green city, with wide boulevards and neoclassical architecture in the city centre and socialist apartment buildings in the outskirts. In autumn, the air pollution becomes bad because the city is en...
A surrogacy ban is not feminist
The Italian parliament made it illegal earlier this month for people to go abroad to have a baby via surrogacy.
Giorgia Meloni, the country’s first-ever female prime minister, has been battling to get the bill passed since she came into of...
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I am a journalist and writer, focusing on early childhood, caregivers and reproductive rights. I write a newsletter, The First 1,000 Days, about the foundational period of our lives.
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