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Michelle Jones 25/11/02. Maternal deprivation hypothesis. This assignment focuses upon Bowlby's (1951) Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis. Maternal Deprivation: A catch-phrase summarising Bowlby's early work on the effects of separating infants and young children from their mothers. He believed that maternally deprived children were likely to develop asocial or antisocial tendencies and that juvenile delinquency was mainly a consequence of such separations. The theory behind this of this was his advocacy of continuous mother-child contact for at least the first five years of life, which earned him the opprobrium of feminists. Subsequent research has confirmed that lack of maternal care does lead to poor social adjustment and relationship difficulties, but suggests that disruption, conflict, and poor maternal handling are more common causes of difficulties in later life than the loss of mother in itself. No area of controversy in Psychology has given rise to such widely differing assertations as the topic of "Maternal Deprivation". Thus in...

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