“…Supportive social relationships can have a positive effect on long-term socioemotional development ( Smith and Pollak, 2021 ). In contrast, early life stress introduces vulnerability in the development of emotional and social processes ( Hanson et al, 2021 , Herzberg and Gunnar, 2020 , Milojevich et al, 2021 ). Areas of the brain that construct emotions, including medial prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, and amygdala ( Lindquist et al, 2012 , Park et al, 2018 ), and areas involved in motivational processes, including nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area ( Cromwell et al, 2020 , Park et al, 2021 ), are particularly sensitive to stress.…”