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Are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie doing their children a disservice with all their international traveling?
Manhattan-based psychotherapist/social worker Puja Hall tells the New York Post’s Page Six that Hollywood's most nomadic parents may be hurting their kids by "not creating a stable environment outside the family unit.”
In the last two years, the Jolie-Pitts have lived in New Orleans, Paris, Namibia, Berlin and, most recently, New York, where Maddox, 6, attended the Lycée Francais for just six weeks. They are currently living in L.A., where Jolie is shooting "The Changeling."
"Maddox is an adopted child, so he already has a sense of abandonment," said Hall, who’s been practicing for 21 years. "Kids that constantly move are like army brats, in that very often they don't want to open up to people. They feel loss, and there is a problem with attachment."
Hall continued: "With the moves, the kids just don't invest in relationships, because they're going to lose them anyway. They think: 'Why bother? I'm not gonna stick around. We're gonna pick up and go, and the loss of friends is painful.' "
Hall advised that the couple settle down permanently before Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 16 months, begin to develop attachment issues. "At some point, they will have to make some important choices so the kids can form those bonds and keep them,” said Hall.
"It's nobody's business what they do with their kids,” Pitt’s rep, Cindy Guagenti, told the Post, calling the story "unfair to them.”
Source: usmagazine.com
Manhattan-based psychotherapist/social worker Puja Hall tells the New York Post’s Page Six that Hollywood's most nomadic parents may be hurting their kids by "not creating a stable environment outside the family unit.”
In the last two years, the Jolie-Pitts have lived in New Orleans, Paris, Namibia, Berlin and, most recently, New York, where Maddox, 6, attended the Lycée Francais for just six weeks. They are currently living in L.A., where Jolie is shooting "The Changeling."
"Maddox is an adopted child, so he already has a sense of abandonment," said Hall, who’s been practicing for 21 years. "Kids that constantly move are like army brats, in that very often they don't want to open up to people. They feel loss, and there is a problem with attachment."
Hall continued: "With the moves, the kids just don't invest in relationships, because they're going to lose them anyway. They think: 'Why bother? I'm not gonna stick around. We're gonna pick up and go, and the loss of friends is painful.' "
Hall advised that the couple settle down permanently before Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and Shiloh, 16 months, begin to develop attachment issues. "At some point, they will have to make some important choices so the kids can form those bonds and keep them,” said Hall.
"It's nobody's business what they do with their kids,” Pitt’s rep, Cindy Guagenti, told the Post, calling the story "unfair to them.”
Source: usmagazine.com
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