Both in the near-psychological environment and in the psychological community itself, there is often a conviction that without maternal love a full-fledged personality cannot be formed. If this is translated as a call to girls to be better mothers, to be more positive, caring and attentive, then this call can only be supported. If it says exactly what it says:
without maternal love, a full-fledged personality cannot be formed,
it seems that there is no such data in scientifically oriented psychology. On the contrary, it is easy to give the opposite data, when a child grew up without a mother or without maternal love, but grew up into a developed, full-fledged person.
See memories of Winston Churchill’s childhood…
Development up to a year
It should be taken into account that bodily contact with the mother is indeed vital for a child up to a year old, and the deprivation of such contact significantly complicates the further development and formation of the personality. However, bodily contact with a mother is not the same as motherly love, especially since bodily contact with a grandmother, father, or sister is a completely complete substitute. See →