Lack of Attachment and Sociopathic Behavior

What behaviors or environmental factors cause the difference between severe childhood development problems and mild cases? A child is born to have connection with the environment he or she is living in. An infant is capable of learning how to connect with other people in variety of ways. One of the ways is to get attach and have connection with its caregiver: mother, father, and or grandparents, to learn how to have empathy for the people around him or her. A child, who did not see any empathy in the first early years of childhood, (the first two years of life), he or she will be sociopathic. A sociopathic, also called psychopathy is defined in lack of empathy and connection between a caregiver, mother, and the child. However, many children with sociopathic behavior can be harmful. They will not command suicide, but their lack of empathy would make them to be a “cold blooded” person throughout its adulthood and would cause an unpleasant behavior. Sociopathic behavior can be harmful for the people around the person, who is a sociopath. The person will not show love or any emotional behavior throughout his or her life, because he or she did not see nor had connection of love and empathy in its early life.

One of the examples of a sociopathic behavior and lack of attachment is the case of seventeen years old boy, Ryan. He had everything that a teenage boy would want to have, “he grew up in a stable two-parent home” (Perry, 121); but he did not have the one important thing in his life, empathy. His parents were rich and they provide him with money; but they never provide him with love. When Ryan was born, his mother wanted to create a good life for him. Since she did not have time to take care of him, she hired a nanny for her baby....

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...an infant is living in, and how he or she would get treat in the first three years, would get effect on his or her behavior. “ Babies’ brains are searching for clues about the world that they are entering, trying to predict what settings will best adapt them to the life ahead” (Patty 127). When the baby does not see any care, any kind of emotion in its life, they would grow up as an unemotional person, because the person’s brain did not process the steps of learning empathy in its life. “A baby is born with just one suite of genes. If they can produce only one pattern of responses, that pattern could turn out to be fatally maladaptive” (Patty 128). The baby is capable of learning whatever the environment is giving him to learn. Children may seem they don’t understand everything that goes around him or her, but it’s from that children will understand how to behave.