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Children’s Emotional Development Suffers When Mothers are Absent
Psychological Development
According to Erik Erikson’s Eight Stage of Development, the first few years of a child’s life, typically when they are placed in a daycare, are key in the development of trust and security. During early infancy, a child learns whether he can trust and be supported by the world around him. If all but two days of the week he is in daycare, the child cannot rely on his ‘teachers’ or his mother to be there for him no matter what. It is important for there to be one person that the child knows he can always fall back on. Sometimes his mother is gone and sometimes the teachers are gone, therefore the child loses that sense of security and knowing that his mother will be there for him 24/7.
Erikson’s second stage focuses on autonomy. This, however, cannot be achieved without passing through the first stage successfully, meaning trusting. A child cannot fully explore his freedoms without a strong foundation he knows he can fall back on. Taking risks and trying new things is how a child is introduced to the world. If a child wants to explore and go out on his own, he must be secure in knowing that his mother will rescue him if things do not turn out as planned.
Erikson’s entire theory is based on the fact that one cannot successfully progress through all eight stages of development unless he completes each individual step in the correct manner with a positive outcome. When a child is away from his mother during the earliest years of his life, he fails to succeed the first key step of development, which therefore snowballs and affects the rest of his development.
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March 1, 2009 10:57AM
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