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ears of life. This all goes into the basic trust vs. mistrust factor that we have discussed in class. I have personally experienced something of this magnitude when I was a child. I had a friend who was very close in age that whom was adopted along with his younger sister whom was just a few years younger. I'm not exactly clear on the factors of when they were adopted, where their real parents were or how long it took to be adopted. Although the older of the two was very deceitful and didn't behave very well, even at times in adolescence going as far as physically hurting his parents. The younger of two seemed to be a little bit more attentive to her parents even though she did turn out to be a bit of a rebel.

Chapter Two: Enter Bowley: The Search for a Theory of Relatedness.

This chapter spends a great deal of time on the studies of John Bowlby, a psychoanalysis whom wrote a paper in 1939 about his views about early childhood experiences that have lead to psychological disorders. His views centered around a few main ideas. All this started with a concern of the child's home life. When you think of a child's home life you naturally think of how clean the house is, what class of living the family is, or how educated the parents are. Although we should really be looking at is the emotional quality the house has to offer such as how the mother treats the children. Does she act tense around the baby all the time or does she direct hospitality towards the child? Bowlby went on to theorize that there are two environmental factors that contributed to the child's early years of life. The first being weather the mother was dead or if the child was illegitimate or if there was a prolonged period of time that the mother and child were separated. The second was the mother's emotional attitude towards the baby. Examples of this are in how "she handles feeding, weaning, toilet training, and the other mundane aspects of maternal care." The rest ...