father, brother, sister, husband, wife, son, daughter, and a small cadre of close friends (Robertson 1). A mother’s love is a crude offering, and according to Kennell and Klaus in their book Parent-Infant Bonding, there is a possessiveness and an appetit

Some argue that attachment is one qualitative feature of the emotional tie to the partner. The operationalization of the construct (attachment) to determine the presence or absence has to be done by some measure of the interaction between partners. Joe Mercer’s Mothers' Responses to Their Infants with Defects says, “The mother either responds to her infant’s cries with affectionate behaviors and evokes the infants interactions to suggest the infant is a central part of her life, or she does not. The infant either shows preferential responses to the mother, responds to her verbal and tactile stimulation, or does not.” (Mercer 17). He further goes on to explain that it is easier to say the infant’s tie to the mother is absent, but the psychological complexity of adults make it far more difficult to say a mother has no bond to her infant (Mercer 19). Attachment is crucial to the survival and development of the infant. Kenneth and Klaus point out that the parents’ bond to their child may be the strongest of all human ties. This relationship has two main characteristics: before birth the infant gestates within a part of the mother’s body and after birth she ensures his survival while he is utterly dependent on her and until he becomes a separate individual. “The power of this attachment is so great that it enables the mother and father to make the unusual sacrifices necessary for the care of their infant. Day after day, night after night; changing diapers, attending to cries, protecting the child from danger, and giving feed in the middle of the night despite their desperate need to sleep” (Mercer 22).

According to Mark A. Stewart in Raising a Hyperactive Child, “There are some homes in which children are raised so permissively or so haphazardly that they are never taught how to listen to someone else. Neither are they taught how to stick to a task, or how to control their impulsive behavior because there never was a great bond created between the child and parents” (Stewart 23). Stewart continues by pointing out that these children will, of course, be at a disadvantage when they venture outside the home to school or to other children's home or in other situations where they are injected to exert some control over their behavior. Stewart also stresses the importance of parents teaching their children how to socialize and behave in public. He says, "if there is a bond between the parents and child there will never be a problem when it comes to one parent getting the child to do what’s right" (Stewart 24). If a child has been brought up in a very unstructure

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