Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family… The advantage of this view… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work.… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality… Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere… The cost… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting,… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
