Dr. James McKenna has info on his website about research (done by
others) that specifically refutes the Oedipus complex argument about
boys cosleeping with their mothers.

See http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/culturalarticle.html and make
your way to section 2C, "Do Solitary? or Social? Infant Sleeping
Arrangements Produce
Independent, Satisfied, (Moral) Children and Adults? Is This The
Right Question?"  Here is a quote: "* A study of parents of 86
children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2-13
years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed
that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their
comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children,
and they were under-represented in psychiatric populations compared
with children who did not cosleep. The authors state: "Contrary to
expectations, those children who had not had previous professional
attention for emotional or behavioral problems coslept more
frequently than did children who were known to have had psychiatric
intervention, and lower parental ratings of adaptive functioning. The
same finding occurred in a sample of boys one might consider "Oedipal
victors" (e.g. 3 year old and older boys who sleep with their mothers
in the absence of their fathers)--a finding which directly opposes
traditional analytic thought" (16).   The reference is 16. Forbes JF,
Weiss DS, Folen RA. The co-sleeping habits of military children.
Military Medicine 1992; 157:196-200.

There is much more on this and on the cosleeping/breastfeeding
adaptive complex in the article.

I came across an interesting H.L. Mencken quote in the newspaper this
morning, which is relevant to the Russian "feminist" and her
opinions.  "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.
The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely
what is right and what is wrong."

Warmly,
Margaret
Longmont, Colorado


>She keeps mentioning some psychoanalysis (Freud, Young, etc) of
>breastfeeding and Oedipus complex
>(http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2699/0002/2699000243/p1/article.jhtml
>and http://www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/vornikFreud/oedip.htm for those
>interested) and damage co-sleepers and long-term nurses do to a

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>child, especially, a boy.  If you