Maternal bond

incarnation of both the desire to keep the obedient daughter tied to the maternal figure and the urge to push the disobedient one into adulthood. The contrasting attitude shown towards her offspring results in the impossibility for Amma and Camille to learn how to deal with anxiety. The quality of Adora’s care conditions her daughters’ growth of self and of their basic emotional self-image. Because of their damaging…

incarcerated at a maximum-security prison. Their median age was 31 years, and nearly 90% of them had children of their own or took care of their partner’s children for a considerable period of time. In conclusion, it is difficult to isolate the effects of maternal incarceration on children’s attachment style. However, the child who were a direct witnesses to physical or verbal abuse experienced psychological, emotional, and behavioral effects. To combat this, the authors suggested mentoring…

CONCLUSION (THESIS 21.6.15) Poems by women writers on motherhood and mothering, discussed so far conform to the feminist theorization of motherhood both as a subjugating political institution and an enriching personal experience. The poems may not be exclusively written to expose or explore the themes of motherhood alone, but their approach to this topic is extra ordinarily rich and varied, offering fresh insights into how sexual politics and the related institutions, like marriage, religion,…

belief of Darl’s insanity is his lack of a maternal influence; Addie rejects Darl from his conception and favors Jewel over Darl in her heart. Because of this maternal absence, her death causes Darl to question his own existence in comparison to others. Another feature to examine is the fact that his perceptions allow him to delve deeper into thought and are of an obsessive nature, unlike the other Bundrens. A key influence to Darl’s supposed insanity is maternal…

Solomon Racism and sexism: issues prevalent in societies past and present and causes of tension across the world today. While Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon addresses racism and sexism through themes of chaotic and childhood friendship and distant maternal relationships, Morrison’s “Recitatif” focuses on racism using the same themes. Although, contrastingly, “Recitatif” contains an interracial ambiguous female friendship that confronts and proves society’s racism, but Song of Solomon instead…

One of the most important human relationship that individual creates with other human is the relatively long-term emotionally bond in which an individual looks for security and comfort from the presence of another, i.e. the attachment. ‘A baby cannot exist alone, but is essentially part of a relationship’ (Winnicot, 1964). According to psychoanalytic and behaviourist perspective feeding was seen as a central context in which the caregiver and babies develop attachment. Idea not shared among the…

deals with the issue of adoption but also the issue of infertility when she finds out she cannot have a baby. She is an extremely maternal figure which Kay shows through the word choice of “always” signifying that the woman cannot think of a time when she didn’t want to have a child. And she does not just want a baby of her own, she aches for the…

The term attachment describes a bond between individuals that is developed over time. Attachments are usually to our primary caregivers, this process is considered to be biological and present from birth (Prior and Glaser 2006). The formation of attachments is a psychological connectedness that is lasting between individuals, Bowlby (1969) Due to this, it is an integral part in the way we develop relationships. However, if adversity does disrupt our attachment development, can this have…

neonatal intensive care unit, and influences mother-child interaction. Methods: The method of study was an experiment. To assess the effect of kangaroo mother care, physiological functions were measured. Mother-child interaction was assessed using the Maternal Postnatal Attachment Scale (MPAS). Statistical analyses were carried out with a two-sample t-test, non-parametric Wilcoxon test, chisquare test and Fischer's exact test. The statistical tests were evaluated at a significance level of 5%.…

Attachment theory is able to describe the dynamics of long-term and short-term personal relationships between humans. Attachment can describe the bond between a child and a specific adult caregiver who serves as a source of safety in times of stress (Solberg, 2012). Stereotypically, the mothers form this bond with the infants as they are more likely to stay home as the father figure is usually off at work. Traditionally, if parents are in need of a care giver they would look to parents, extended…