Early neglect and abuse cripple the capacity to trust that requires early development
Evidence
If we must develop such a capacity at an early age, two potentially large groups are at a cruel disadvantage: those whose early years are spent in fractured conditions of caprice and neglect, as in the case of many children of American inner-city communities wrecked by poverty, drugs, and broken families, and those who have suffered substantial abuse in their early years from the very persons who might have provided the first experience of trustworthiness. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 541
Categorization
- XREF: Supports Hardin’s observable-constraints argument: children need consistent, observable trustworthiness to learn trust. — connects to: Readiness to trust itself varies and is not a fixed precondition; Low group-level trust reflects asymmetric interaction frequencies and early-life experience.; Trust requires time for repeated interactions and is a cognitive capacity (+4 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 541
Broader Connections
- Readiness to trust itself varies and is not a fixed precondition
#qualifies(0.78) - Low group-level trust reflects asymmetric interaction frequencies and early-life experience.
#expands(0.75) - Trust requires time for repeated interactions and is a cognitive capacity
#complicates(0.72) - Trusting others and trusting oneself develop together.
#qualifies(0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 231