It also creates a "Marlboro Man" society, in which rugged individualism is admired and the inability to handle stressful situations is cause for shame and withdrawal. Support for failure and for emotional responses to stress are not part of our culture. You're supposed to brave it, Commons said. And this leaves people very open to developing post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and character disorders and they recover more slowly because they don't have the emotional resources to seek comfort and consoling, he says. Commons said that babies - especially those younger than 8 months - should be allowed to sleep with their parents. They should be close to comforting adults throughout the day, he added. Infants should be rubbed, hugged, and kissed, and they should be kept very close to parents, he said.

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