Do we need love and nuturing to survive the modern world? Will someone fit into society if they do not recieve love as a child? Is it humanly possible to not love your own child?

-- Kimberly Dawn Bowers (every_rednecks_dream@yahoo.com), March 28, 2003

Answers

See: Harlow, Harry F. (1958). The nature of love. American Psychologist, 13, 573-685. On-line at: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Harlow/love.htm

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), March 28, 2003.

You might also look at John Bowlby's work on attachment theory. A great deal has been written in recent years about attachment dynamics in adults as well as children.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), March 28, 2003.