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Maternal Deprivation

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Maternal deprivation in children creates attachment issues and many other social, personal, psychological issues in a child's development.
A healthy attachement to mother helps children bond with their peers, feel confident, confidence help children achieve at school and other areas of their lives like sports.
A lack of ability to bond with peers can result in the child being bullied and rejected by other children for being different, reinforcing the feelings of sadness, insecurity, low self-esteem.
These factors can lead in a child feeling anxious, depressed, develop a more serious type of mental illness or develop anti-social behaviours as a child and even later in the adult life.
Another person than biological mother could represent mother

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