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According to Friedman, having two women care for a baby boy may cause his little brain to internalize the idea that there are multiple females to meet his needs. "It introduces him to the concept of the other woman," he said in London's Daily Telegraph. He explicates the relationship in his book The Unsolicited Gift: Why We Do The Things We Do, which explores how a mother's love for her offspring can determine how those children behave as adults. (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...thesis concerning boys that has been more controversial. Having two maternal objects, says Friedman, "creates a division in [the boy's] mind between the woman he knows to be his natural mother and the woman with whom he has a real hands-on relationship: the woman who bathes him and takes him to the park, and with whom he feels completely at one." This dual-woman life, one for family and one for catering to his every need, might become a set pattern in his mind, so that when he grows up and feels like his needs are not being...
...providers, older brothers and sisters, or anyone else who interacts with them socially and frequently participates in care routines like feeding and bathing." These relationships are healthy and part of normal development. And becoming attached to a nanny doesn't equal becoming detached from a mother, or that the two are interchangeable. "A nanny or other person is added to the existing relationships most babies have." (See the mobile apps that make adultery easier...
...Two leaders of the Earthwatch Institute introduced themselves to the Allston community at an Allston Civic Association meeting last night, following Harvard’s announcement yesterday that the nonprofit environmental advocacy group would move its headquarters to a University-owned property in the neighborhood this April...
...need to have a hundred banks,” said Christos Soillis, owner of Felix Shoe Repair on Mass. Avenue. “We need to have small businesses. But you can’t tell the banks not to come here. You do need one, two, or three ... but again, you can’t really do anything about...