Oh heck, there was a theory about this, we talked about it in psych, and a study and everything...
Wasn't it Bowlby or someone similar who did a study which pretty much showed that if you had bad or no parents, you're likely to neglect your own child? I think it was monkeys that he used, but it pretty much proved all those 'mothering is instincive' people wrong.
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Date: 2007-05-15 02:25 pm (UTC)Wasn't it Bowlby or someone similar who did a study which pretty much showed that if you had bad or no parents, you're likely to neglect your own child? I think it was monkeys that he used, but it pretty much proved all those 'mothering is instincive' people wrong.