Gabriele (the mother) expressed love compassionately, but only when she had the time to do so. She was a hard-worker, an overachiever that had no time for others, but in a way she had to because of financial difficulties. Economic vulnerability affected the bonding and attachment with her children therefore love was expressed minimally. Emotional neglect can certainly affect the relationship between the child and parent. Her parents were in the same situation since they had to work a lot therefore other caregivers were around to express their love to her. Gabriele was aware of the negative effects of getting neglected. That is the main reason as to why she overly expresses her love compassionately with the little time she has with her children.
In addition, it felt as if her love gradually decreased as her children got older, almost as if love loses its intensity as times passes. Emotional attachment takes time; without time spent there is no love. Gabriele was also submissive, nervous and scared of her husband, which made her second guess her parenting decisions out of the fear of abuse, humiliation and embarrassment. Sadly, she secretly expressed her love towards her children, so her husband wouldn’t see. She tried to express her love, but coercive control limited her acts of love. According to the Office for Prevention of Domestic violence (2013), coercive control is oppressive behavior that is gender-based privileged; thus causing emotional and even physical abuse All in all, my mother was victimized and depressed. How can someone express love if they are oppressed and depressed?
In both stories it is explicitly told that the mothers in fact do not love their children and it is just a façade. Hester felt as if her children “…had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them” but according to individuals she knew “…[s]he adores her children (334-335).” Hester was not fit to be a mother because her children knew she did not love them and cared for him as a mother should and she showed herself to be phony by accepting everyone’s false beliefs on her parenting. Mrs. Dickinson is “…really ashamed of…” Frederick and since love is about acceptance and she has not accepted her child her love for him is questionable (111). Her being a mother is not admirable because her child id unable to be himself around her and she does not love him and accept him for who he
Parenting has been a long practice that desires and demands unconditional sacrifices. Sacrifice is something that makes motherhood worthwhile. The mother-child relationship can be a standout amongst the most convoluted, and fulfilling, of all connections. Women are fuel by self-sacrifice and guilt - but everyone is the better for it. Their youngsters, who feel adored; whatever is left of us, who are saved disagreeable experiences with adolescents raised without affection or warmth; and mothers most importantly. For, in relinquishing, a mother feels strong and liberal; and in guild she finds the motivation to right wrong.
Her family life is depicted with contradictions of order and chaos, love and animosity, conventionality and avant-garde. Although the underlying story of her father’s dark secret was troubling, it lends itself to a better understanding of the family dynamics and what was normal for her family. The author doesn’t seem to suggest that her father’s behavior was acceptable or even tolerable. However, the ending of this excerpt leaves the reader with an undeniable sense that the author felt a connection to her father even if it wasn’t one that was desirable. This is best understood with her reaction to his suicide when she states, “But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb.” (pg. 399)
As her "daddy's daughter", there is little doubt that a form of love exists between Ruth Dead and Dr. Foster; however, such love is not truly love because as evidenced by Ruth's subsequent life, the filial relationship better resembles an emotional dependence that Ruth took for granted (67). The great emotional schism within her that is the result of her father's death leaves Ruth dysfunctional: she is unable to emote towards other, especially her family. Instead, ...
The mother and child relationships greatly affect the identity development in the kids. As seen in the community, the mother-child relationship is important in the sense that the mothers help shape their children’s future and aid them while understanding the world. Eva was a good mother from the beginning. She always wanted the best for her children before taking care of herself. Though hard to understand by her children, she killed Plum to relieve him from his heroine addiction and to make her life a little easier. “Rocking, rocking, listening to Plum’s occasional chuckles, Eva let her memory spin, loop and fall… ‘Mamma, you so purty. You so purty, Mamma.’ Eva lifted her tongue to the edge of her lip to stop the tears from running into her mouth” (46-47). Eva’s love for Plum is clearly shown. With his addiction, he was unable to live on his own and this required a lot of money and time; time in which Eva did not have to help. Because he was so far into his drug problem, it would take a lot of money to put Plum in therapy or to help him overcome the addiction. By Plum no longer being alive, this is one less child to worry about feeding and providing support for. It was a difficult ...
Looking back on the death of Larissa’s son, Zebedee Breeze, Lorraine examines Larissa’s response to the passing of her child. Lorraine says, “I never saw her cry that day or any other. She never mentioned her sons.” (Senior 311). This statement from Lorraine shows how even though Larissa was devastated by the news of her son’s passing, she had to keep going. Women in Larissa’s position did not have the luxury of stopping everything to grieve. While someone in Lorraine’s position could take time to grieve and recover from the loss of a loved one, Larissa was expected to keep working despite the grief she felt. One of the saddest things about Zebedee’s passing, was that Larissa had to leave him and was not able to stay with her family because she had to take care of other families. Not only did Larissa have the strength to move on and keep working after her son’s passing, Larissa and other women like her also had no choice but to leave their families in order to find a way to support them. As a child, Lorraine did not understand the strength Larissa must have had to leave her family to take care of someone else’s
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Fromm describes the value of secure attachment, explaining that to a baby, “mother is warmth, mother is food, mother is euphoric state of satisfaction and security” (Fromm, 38). As they grow, children learn how to love and be loved through this relationship. The experience of being loved as a baby is described as a “passive one” because “there is nothing I [the baby] has to do in order to be loved” (Fromm, 39). Love, as a child may have learned about it, can only be received and “cannot be acquired, produced, controlled”, but the “capacity to love” can be developed; this is usually displayed in children starting at age eight (Fromm, 40). In a healthy learning journey, children come to learn that “love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love” (Fromm, 46). Children will seriously struggle - especially in regards to their ability to love and be loved - if they are deprived a comforting, present caretaker in their early years of
Justin, a boy who was raised in a dog cage until the age of five, suffered similar neglect as those mentioned earlier. Justin was kept in a dog cage and rarely interacted with his caregiver, who lacked the attachment bond needed for later development; his only attachment came from dogs (). In regards to the four factors that help strengthen the attachment between a child and caregiver, contemporary factors played a role in this situation. Contemporary factors are influenced by the abilities of an adult needed to provide a strong and stable attachment (). Justin was left in the care of his grandmother, but when his grandmother passed away, he was left in the care of Arthur, the grandmother’s boyfriend Arthur. Arthur was an elderly man who never had children and was limited on how to raise a child. Other contemporary factors such as the confidence and self-control needing to raise a child carry over into the child’s attachment development (). Within Connor’s case, he suffered neglect from birth to 18 months (). Connor had been neglected throughout all stages of development, which in result limited his ability to form a secure attachment and be able to rely on others for support and comfort. Connor was left alone throughout the day, creating an inconsistent and unstable perspective on how
Through Beloved and Washington’s article, the concept of the Aje mother-daughter relationship becomes prevalent. This concept is emphasized by unification through violence, male absence, and the idea of Sethe’s “best self.” Washington says, “Beloved revolves around a mother and daughter’s desire to enjoy perfect unity” (Washington 174). Clearly, we see this concept and ultimately what happens as a result of Sethe’s desire, and the destructive path it leads her down, as of course, destruction is a characteristic of the mother-daughter Aje relationship.
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According to Freud, the development of the mature love character begins as soon as the child has adequately developed a sense of "the otherness" of its surrounds to pick out its mother as the objective of its affection. At first this completely inherent and insentient affection begins as the normal result of the child's faith upon its mother for food, affection and comfort. From the mother the child first be taught how to express warmth, and the motherly caresses and the friendly feeling which the child get from its mother by the easy analogies to care for when the child feels a attentive passion for another individual of the contrary sex. Its mother, in a very genuine sense of the world, is its first adore.
If a caregiver is unkind or unresponsive the child will likely develop a dysfunctional attachment to the parent that they carry on into adulthood (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). Thankfully my mother was quite attentive, she held me when I cried, she grew up in the era where a baby could never be held too much. Through this I feel as though I developed a very secure attachment to my mother. As an adult we do not always see eye to eye, yet, I feel as though I am able to form my own opinions without fear of recourse or rejection. Both she and my step-father say how proud they are of me and the woman, mother, and wife that I have become. Being that my mother was a single parent and worked full time I spent a lot of time in the care of others. Our text highlights the risk to Mother-infant attachment about daycare, especially poor-quality care situations. My mother was always vigilant when it came to my care, I was always enrolled with in-home caregivers which my mother had screened diligently. This early time, birth to two-years, is the sensorimotor stage according to Piaget. During this time, I would be
By choosing to lover her child, the mother acknowledges that she doesn’t feel as if she is obligated to do so because she wants to love him or her and is prepared for the challenges that await her. Thoma Oord writes in his article “The Love Racket: Defining Love and Agape for the Love–and–Science Research Program” that the definition of love refers to the “promotion of well being of all others in an enduring, intense, effective, and pure manner” meaning that when a person loves someone, they will try to do whatever they can to their beloved’s benefit (922). The child is benefited in many ways when the mother chooses to love him or her, for example, the child’s anxiety levels and sense of fear are lowered because they have the security of the bond they possess with their mother (Tarlaci 745). In his article, “Unmasking the Neurology of Love,” Robert Weiss explains that love is a “goal-orientated motivation state rather than a specific emotion” which arises the possibility of a mother “falling out of love” with her child if neither feelings or goals are present. Tarlaci observed an experiment conducted by A. Bartels and S. Zeki in which they compared the brain activity of both a mother looking at a picture of her child to a lover looking at a picture of their beloved. In the experiment it was discovered that “just about the same regions of the brain showed activity in the same two groups except for one” the PACG, which has been confirmed to be “specific to a mother’s love” (Tarlaci 747). So the chances of a mother falling out of love with her child are there, but are different from that of a lover due to the areas of the brain involved. Therefore, explaining the bond between a mother and child as something that forms when a mother chooses to love him or her implies a greater sense of willingness and