Showing papers on "Cognitive decline published in 1977"
TL;DR: Of the many topics I covered in an extensive review of the literature, in 1964, on the effects on children of different patterns of care during infancy and early childhood, only two clearly presaged the major concerns of the decade ahead.
Abstract: Of the many topics I covered in an extensive review of the literature, in 1964, on the effects on children of different patterns of care during infancy and early childhood, only two clearly presaged the major concerns of the decade ahead. One was titled "Intensity of maternal contact," and was drawn from the issues raised by John Bowlby (1952) in his monumental monograph Maternal care and mental health, commissioned and published by the World Health Organization. The other was headed "The influence of social class," and reflected the prevailing attitude that the proper model of child care was that practiced by a fairly constricted group of parents, living in traditional nuclear family settings, in which the mother was the primary caregiver, dispensing nurture and comfort, and the father offered discipline and stability. Any deviation from this model was interpreted as pathological childrearing and as predisposing the children so reared to personality disturbances and cognitive decline in later years. The model may have been correct, but time did not stand still long enough for us to find out.
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