... at birth but are an ongoing process of learning. Chodorow explained in her book "The Reproduction of Mothering," that a child's sense of identity begins with their mothers as they are their primary caregivers and they are completely dependant on their mother for survival. It is the infants' realisation that a mother does not depend on the infant for survival that develops a tension ... with their mothers. Where as, only 18.18% of males, admitted to feeling a greater connections with their mothers (See figure 3). With mothers being so crucial to the development of children, males are still...

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