According to NCES 2, only 53 percent of children ages three to five were read to daily by a family member (1999). Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read to aloud everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above poverty.
There is more than hope for people with post-traumatic stress. Recovery can and does occur. Please do not rely on medication alone as it has no power to change the brain permanently. Effective cognitive-behavioral approaches -- which with repetition change the brain -- work in the vast majority of cases.
You may need to take several medicines to get the best results. Levodopa (also called L-dopa) is the best drug for controlling symptoms of Parkinson's. But it can cause problems if you use it for a long time or at a high dose. So doctors sometimes use other medicines to treat people in the early stages of the disease.