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£ wjj ( K O O B M A T N A B A * 0 5 . 2 $ * 2 - 7 4 1 2 1 SELMA FRAIBERG ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE MAGIC YEARS “IT SHOULD BE READ AND READ AGAIN BY ALL THOSE WHO CARE ^ ABOUT CHILDREN.”—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. ^ SELMA FRAXBERG As she so brilliantly demonstrates in her best selling classic, The Magic Years, no one can write more evocatively about childhood and the expe rience of children than Selma Fraiberg. Dr. Fraiberg is professor of child psychoanalysis in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and is director of the Child Devel opment Project there. Her most recent book, in- sights from the Blind, is a remarkable study of development in blind babies. “In teaching us how love is bom and how it may die in infancy, Selma Fraiberg has given us a re markable look a t. . . the roots of good and evil in the adult world. She has opened a window to our society’s values, and their awesome role in shaping future generations.” —Dr. Julius Segal, National Institute of Public Health “If the debate on children and families were to be informed by Selma Fraiberg’s fierce and stead fast care for children, the whole next generation would be in her debt.” —Kenneth Keniston, The New York Times Book Review “Dr. Fraiberg is keenly perceptive, witty, and re markably readable.” —Publishers Weekly Bantam Books of Related Interest Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS® BABY BOOK CHILDBIRTH AT HOME by Marion Sousa COMPLETE BOOK OF BREASTFEEDING by Marvin Eiger, M.D. and Sally Olds EVERY CHILD’S BIRTHRIGHT: IN DEFENSE OF MOTHERING by Selma Fraiberg THE FIRST TWELVE MONTHS OF LIFE edited by Frank Caplan MOVING THROUGH PREGNANCY by Elisabeth Bing NAME YOUR BABY by Laureina Rule NINE MONTHS READING: A MEDICAL GUIDE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN by Robert E. Hall, M.D. PREGNANCY NOTEBOOK by Marcia Colman Morton PREPARING FOR PARENTHOOD by Dr. Lee Salk THE ROOTS OF LOVE by Helene Amstein SIX PRACTICAL LESSONS FOR AN EASIER CHILDBIRTH by Elisabeth Bing UNDERSTANDING PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH by Sheldon H. Cherry, M.D. YOUR BABY’S SEX: NOW YOU CAN CHOOSE by David M. Rorvik with Landrum B. Shettles, M.D., Ph.D. EVERY CHILD’S BIRTHRIGHT In Defense of Mothering Selma Fraiberg BANTAM BOOKS Toronto / New York / London % This low-priced Bantam Book has been completely reset in a type face designed for easy reading, and was printed from new plates. It contains the complete text of the original hard-cover edition. NOT ONE WORD HAS BEEN OMITTED. EVERY CHILD’S BIRTHRIGHT A Bantam Book / published by arrangement with Basic Books, Inc., Publishers PRINTING HISTORY Basic Books edition published October 1977 2nd printing .. November 1977 4th printing January 1978 3rd printing January 1978 5th printing ....... March 1978 Bantam edition / March 1978 Cover photograph by Elizabeth Richter All rights reserved. Copyright © 1977 by Selma Fraiberg. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission. For information address: Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022. ISBN 0-353-12147-2 Published simultaneously in the United States and Canada Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, Inc. Its trade mark, consisting of the words “Bantam Books” and the por trayal of a bantam, is Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Marca Registrada. Bantam Books, Inc., 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10019. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA For Jennie, Dora, and Lisa Contents Preface and Acknowledgments xi I Birthrights 1 FOLK WISDOM AND THE BEARING OF BABIES 3 Proceedings of the First International Congress of Mothers and Babies 7 Introductions 8 Session #1; Infant Health 9 Session #2: Tactile and Kinesthetic Stim ulation in Infancy 9 Session #3: Feeding Your Baby 10 Session #4: Education for Parenthood 11 Session #5: Birth. Care of the Newborn, the Mother, and the Father 15 THE BIOLOGICAL PROGRAM AND SOCIAL TRADITION 25 HUMAN ATTACHMENT: PUTTING THE STORY TOGETHER 31 II The Origins of Human Bonds 37 ON AGGRESSION AND THE BOND 38 THE PARADOX 40 THE DISEASES OF NON-ATTACHMENT 51 CLINICAL STUDIES: LOST AND BROKEN ATTACHMENTS IN INFANCY 58 BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUMAN BOND 61 A SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE 70 III “Divide the Living C hild’ 73 THE MORAL BURDEN 74 BABY LENORE 76 “fitness of the parent” 32 WHO ARE THE DECISION MAKERS? 37 IV Child Care Industries Incorporated 91 THE CHILD TN CARE 93 Infants and Toddlers 94 Preschool—Three to Six Years 98 The School-Age Child 103 THREE FICTIONAL FAMILIES 104 The Neustadts 105 The Andersons 115 The Martins: “Who Takes Care of the Caretaker’s Children?” 121 THE LOOKING GLASS ECONOMY 124 V Priorities for Children 131 THE SCIENTIFIC LEGACY 131 THE DEPARTMENT OF SOMA AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHE 135 ON POVERTY, THE FAMILY, AND HUMAN BONDS 139 The Invisible Father 142 The “Welfare Mother” 143 1967: “Mandatory Employment for Wel fare Heads of Families” 145 Mothers in the Labor Market 146 The Rise in AFDC Rolls and Costs 148 How is Policy Made? 151 And Then the Children 154 WHO ARE THE POLICY MAKERS? 158 ALTERNATIVE POVERTY PROPOSALS 165 BUDGET PRIORITIES AND PRIORITIES FOR CHILDREN 167 VI The Tribal Guardians 173 183 Notes
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