Mother-infant bonding |
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Authors: | Diane E. Eyer |
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Affiliation: | (1) 320 Centre Avenue, 18940 Newtown, PA |
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Abstract: | A study of the research on postpartum mother-infant bonding shows that results from poorly constructed research programs were published in major journals and became a part of hospital policy because the bonding concept was politically useful in the struggle between advocates of natural childbirth and managers of the medical model of birth. The concept was also uncritically accepted because it was consistent with a longstanding ideology of motherhood that sees women as the prime architects of their children’s personalities. Diane Eyer earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently writing a book on the ways in which the concepts of bonding and attachment have affected our understanding of appropriate early childcare. |
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Keywords: | Attachment Bonding Child care History and sociology of medicine Maternal/child health Women’ s studies |
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