There are usually natural instincts that arise when one becomes a mother. Some of these instincts are compassion, patience, and understanding, the yearning to keep your child safe at any cost, and love. The most important of these traits is the ability and desire to love your child. Love is a tremendous part of an infant’s life. Without love a child will have no sense of how to properly treat people on daily basis in society. When children do not receive the love and support that they need from their families it has a profound effect on the child’s emotions. Infants need to feel loved and form bonds with a parental figure immediately after they are born. If there is not a bond formed immediately after birth or in the following weeks and months the child runs a risk of detachment in varying degrees. Without attaching to parental figure it is more difficult for that child to become accustomed to receiving love from others the older the child becomes. John Kennell defines attachment as “an affectionate bond between two individuals that endures through space and time and serves to join them emotionally” (Magid and Mckelevey 58). The bond between mother and child is an emotional one that helps the two become familiar with each other as bring connected for life. According to most psychiatrists and psychologists a bond is not securely formed until the infant is about 3 months old, during this time, they believe the bond cannot be broken, although there has been a few cases recoded where infants younger then 3 months already show signs of detachment (Magid and McKelvey 58). For humans, love is a crucial part of life. Without love, there would be no reason to live, people would not have a purpose in life. People would not protect each other and would have no qualms about taking another persons life for the simple thrill of it.

to obtain full potential as an adult.

Love and belonging are fluid, and should not be placed in a restrictive structure such as Maslow’s. Love is shown throughout the different stages of the hierarchy. If one is willing and able to care for another human beings primary needs, then that is a form of love. If one is willing to keep another safe, then that is another form of expressing love to another person. According to Maslow’s hierarchy, without

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