Day Care

... Day Care Daycare has become a major issue over recent years. Some people believe that daycare can be bad for the child while others will disagree and say that the child needs daycare. Bowlby believed that separation from the mother during the first few years of a child's life could lead to serious and permanent consequences in later life, these may include mental subnormality, delinquency, depression, dwarfism and affectionless psychopathy. If the separation happens in the first year then the attachment may not by "the mother-child relationship". A successful bond should be made with the mother when the child is born. Freud believed that successful bonds are made when feeding practices satisfy the child's need for food, oral pleasure and oral sexual gratification. Breast-feeding is meant to make a more secure attachment to the mother. Behaviourists view of attachment is that the child becomes attached to those who satisfy their physiological needs.

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