Commentary: Children taken from parents suffer permanent damage

Families seeking asylum from violence, abuse and tyranny at our nation’s southern border are being torn apart, with young children suffering unnecessary and forcible separations from their parents. Some of these children are so young that they are still nursing.I’ll be honest: As a physician who devotes my career to the well-being of children, and as a parent myself, witnessing the federal government’s sanctioned abuse of vulnerable children has been difficult to comprehend. Be