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In each person's life much of the joy and sorrow revolves around attachments or affectionate relationships -- making them, breaking them, preparing for them, and adjusting to their loss by death. Among all of these bonds is a special one -- the type a mother or fa ....

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.... daughter, and a small cadre of close friends (Robertson 1). A mother’s love is a crude offering, and according to Kennell and Klaus in their book Parent-Infant Bonding, there is a possessiveness and an appetite in it. Some argue that attachment is one qualitative feature of the emotional tie to the partner. The operationalization of the construct (attachment) to determine the presence or absence has to be done by some measure of the interaction between partners. Joe Mercer’s Mothers' Responses to Their Infants with Defects says, “The mother either responds to her infant’s cries with affectionate behaviors and evokes the infa ....