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maternal deprivation  

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  • The work of psychologist John Bowlby on the role of early relationships in the development of the personality was extremely influential in the 1950s and 1960s. He argued that for a young child to be separated from its mother, for any extended period, created emotional and psychological problems in later life. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Maternal Deprivation]

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