Evaluation

Evaluation

1. Poor Parenting

   • Harlow. Surrogate mothers led to poor parenting
   • 50 women in institutions vs 50 women brought up at home. had difficulty being mothers
   • their Children often spent time in care

2. Deprivation dwarfism

   • institutional care: often very small
     • emotional care rather than nourishment
   • one girl born needing to be fed through a tube
     • Mother resisted cuddling in case of dislodging the tube
   • At 8 months child withdrawn and physically stunted
     • admitted to hospital and got emotional care
       • Became healthy
   • growth hormones linked to emotional deprivation

3. Its just one factor

   • Not all who are deprived of attachment don't recover.
     • suggests privation doesn't explain the negative outcomes
     • Damage only is likely to occur when there is privation, poor care, insecure attachment, and early separations

4. Privation vs rejection

   • Hodges and Tizard could be that they were affected due to feelings of rejection
   • Child may have formed attachments in early life

5. Long term effects

   • Romanian study only shows up to age 11
   • may be that ex-institutional children need more time to mature and learn to cope
   • may eventually recover
     • studies don't follow for a long enough age