Maternal deprivation has been used to describe a whole range of situations in which the infant is deprived of his relationship with his mother. The world health organisation stated that the use of day nurseries inevitably caused permanent damage to the emotional health of a future generation. When mothers go to back to work for children under three or even five years it puts the children at risk. Back in 1951 everything was different and the circumstances these children were raised in was different environment. Having investigated the results of several studies in which children had been separated from their mothers.Bowlby described the stages through which infants go through when they are placed in institutions without their mother's care.
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First delinquency, bowlby studied 4o juvenile thieves and they all had in common that they were separated from their mothers and he assumed this is the reason behind their sufferings. Yarrow confirmed that there is a quite strong relationship between broken homes and delinquency since these two factors correlate highly. Rutter also investigated whether there is a connection between the occurrence of antisocial behavior in boys with early separation experiences due to physical illness and those due to family discord psychiatric problems. Second is the affectionless psychopathy, Bowlby found that 14 of the juvenile thieves which were separated from their mothers were unable to form any kind of relationship or form true affections with others. But it was also proven that not just the bond with the mother is vital. They studied six children who were orphaned by the nazis, these kids developed a strong bond with each other because they had no parents and they were all under five years old. Rutter also states that it is quite likely that distress arises when a child’s relationship with his mother is disrupted but that affectionless psychopathy probably arises because firm bonds fail to develop that is the child suffers maternal privation rather than deprivation. Third is depression, it was found that children who had been
First delinquency, bowlby studied 4o juvenile thieves and they all had in common that they were separated from their mothers and he assumed this is the reason behind their sufferings. Yarrow confirmed that there is a quite strong relationship between broken homes and delinquency since these two factors correlate highly. Rutter also investigated whether there is a connection between the occurrence of antisocial behavior in boys with early separation experiences due to physical illness and those due to family discord psychiatric problems. Second is the affectionless psychopathy, Bowlby found that 14 of the juvenile thieves which were separated from their mothers were unable to form any kind of relationship or form true affections with others. But it was also proven that not just the bond with the mother is vital. They studied six children who were orphaned by the nazis, these kids developed a strong bond with each other because they had no parents and they were all under five years old. Rutter also states that it is quite likely that distress arises when a child’s relationship with his mother is disrupted but that affectionless psychopathy probably arises because firm bonds fail to develop that is the child suffers maternal privation rather than deprivation. Third is depression, it was found that children who had been