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Lloyd De Mause (1996) argued that early trauma results in aggressive adult behavior.<blockquote>That America has arranged to have more people on welfare – Gingrich’sdreaded “underclass” – than any other industrialized country is a clue to whynations need poor people to punish for their prosperity. Since it is prosperity andthreats of intolerable individuation that trigger the restaging of trauma, it makespsychohistorical sense that America today – the most prosperous and freest nationof any in history – has more women and children living in poverty than any otherindustrialized nation. Nor is it coincidental that the world’s wealthiest countryhas the highest child homicide rate and the most newborn boys [[circumcised]], both indices of society’s hostility towards children.<ref name="demause1996">{{REFjournal

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