Early Childhood Empathy Essay

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Emergence of empathy during early childhood is crucial. Empathy is being able to recognize other’s people’s emotions. If a child is not taught empathy the child will not be able to be prosocial. Which in result can lead to many problems. For example, Richard Kuklinski was not taught empathy and he became a serial killer. He claimed to have killed more than 100 people but less than 200. Every human being who has empathy might ask why he did the things he did. Or how was he able to hurt so many people and not feel a thing. The answer is he was not taught empathy therefore he did not feel emotions towards others. Richard lived a brutal childhood and by the age of 10 he began to show pathological behavior. His father was an alcoholic and brutally

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