Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to le….

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that childre….

The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed mother….

Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feeling….