ABSTRACT
The growth and development of the child occurs within a creative nexus of interaction, “an unbounded and continually unfolding field of relations”, intertwining the physical, psychological and cultural. Flexible, relational attunement was not learned so the social world seems impenetrable, requiring a set of external rules for behaving because the natural mode of learning implicit relational knowledge did not get established properly. The child develops a relational pathway through the world, “a movement along a way of life”. During the first few months and years of life, the functions of the right hemisphere are established, with further development through childhood. Societies that stay in physical contact with their infants and children in the manner of the Evolved Development Niche, are more likely to be peaceful societies. The economically wealthiest nation in the world, the USA is socially impoverished and has become a self protectionist society, with a glorified control of nature, children, minorities and other nations.
