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  • Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

    John Bowlby (1946). “Forty-four Juvenile Thieves: Their Characters and Home-life : [With Bibl.].”
  • If we value our children, we must cherish their parents

  • The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature

  • We're only as needy as our unmet needs.

  • Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.

    John Bowlby (2012). “A Secure Base”, p.33, Routledge
  • If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

  • Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base

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John Bowlby

  • Born: February 26, 1907
  • Died: September 2, 1990
  • Occupation: Psychologist