Maternal Care and Mental Health

Abstract

This brilliant and painstaking study leaves no doubt in the mind as to the importance of individual maternal care in the mental and physical well-being of all children.An uneasy conviction, rightly fostered by Bowlby and others in this country, has been growing that much official time and public funds are spent in doing the worst possible for the young child when he is removed from a bad home, and placed in a good Home.In this monograph, the author states his views clearly and vigorously, and supports them ably by his energetic survey of material from Europe and U.S.A.The bibliography covers the whole field of child care in the last 20 years or so, when in the period between two world wars and the economic depressions and social