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A 3 page exploration of the potential emotional and developmental impacts which could be expected in allowing incarcerated mother's to keep their children with them in prison for the first year of the child's life.
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more scrutiny. New York currently has such a system in place and Massachusetts and other states are considering following suite. The argument for implementing such a system is
that it promotes greater mother and child bonding and is therefore better for the emotional development of both the mother and child. There are numerous counter-arguments to this approach.
Basic psychological research shows that during the first few days of a childs life it will bond to anything or anyone who shows it warmth and provides for its basic
needs. It is only after this first few days of bonding that a child will show preference for a particular person or thing and ignore or reject stimuli from
other sources. It has also been shown, through research with monkeys in particular, that once bonding has occurred that child will continue to cling to its mother regardless of
the behavior she exposes it to. Even so termed "monster mothers", surrogate wire and terry cloth contraptions that are provided to immature monkeys in research conditions, are acceptable
to a child as long as she or it provides the infant with occasional warmth. In one study these "monster mothers" were designed to occasionally exhibit what is considered
repulsive behavior. Some would fling the infant away from it at unpredictable times, or blast it with compressed air, or even suddenly bristle in spikes or shake so uncontrollably
that the infant could either not hang on or was prevented to by the spikes. Interestingly the research with surrogate monkey "monster mothers" only produced one type of
monster which the infant would reject forever, that was the "monster mother" designed to have ice water in its veins. In research regarding what is considered a good mother and
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