The first couple of hurdles to that kind of research would be identifying how much children actually missed out on seeing faces, and then whether there would be more appropriate research that could be done.
After all, Mum and Dad aren't wearing a mask to kiss their kids goodnight. And it's those primary attachment figures that matter most in the earliest years.
Given the state of change in society right now, there's a great volume of impacts on children we could be studying. So why would we study that in particular with our finite resources? It absolutely might be the best thing to study, but there's a good deal of work getting to the point where you can demonstrate this.
I guess we're really only concerned how rich kids were impacted. After all we know a great deal about the devastating consequences of childhood deprivation, but we're largely indifferent to the volume of it in our communities.
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