At this point, any assistance parents could get would be greatly appreciated, because we don't have the supports. We do not have a system set up here in Canada, and it varies widely provincially. I live in Ontario. In Ontario we are really lacking versus Calgary. When she said today she was from Calgary, I said I knew people who travel from Ontario to Alberta to get training, especially on FASD, because we just do not have that available here.
If we did have the extra time with our children initially.... And attachment is all about brain development. If a child is not capable of attaching, there are developmental delays. If initially parents had the funding to stay home with the kids for that first year, it would lay the groundwork for them maybe to not have problems down the line.
If they had that initial attachment, you might be able to identify some of the developmental delays, get help, be home to work with the child, and take care of some of these issues before years later, when you have problems where children are acting out. You hear about promiscuity, girls that haven't been able to attach early. If we had that extra time early and there were some sort of a benefit or a fund....