This book made me angry.

Not because of the material - it's a phenomenal encyclopedia of things that can help so many people. But because it's not a priority of our society. I'm pretty certain if we, as a people, suddenly gave a shit about trauma, especially trauma in children, and did things to resolve that, we'd find that prison abolitionists, food-not-bombs adherents, and pharmacological companies that sell mental health in a pill would be all out of business.

(I'm a firm believer in better living through chemistry, but I also want to solve the problem, not mask it with a pill.)

But because we, as a society, don't give a flying rat's patoot about actually solving the problem, and care more about profit margins and making financial gains for a mere 2% of society, the issues we have will never be resolved.