>Jeanne Mitchell wrote:
>
>Ever since the AAP SIDS statement came out, I have been thinking of the =
>work of behavioral scientists in the 60's.
>
>Some monkeys were raised with real mothers.  They clung to their mothers =
>and nursed and were well socialized when they reached adulthood.
>
>Some monkeys were given a wire cage covered in cloth which they clung to =
>and were poorly socialized.  Other monkeys were given a plain wire cage =
>which they clung to as a mother-substitute.  They could not be kept with =
>other adult monkeys when they grew up.
>
>Perhaps someone with a better memory than mine can describe these =
>scenarios more fully.  My memory gives me a pitiful image of a poor =
>little baby monkey clinging to a wire cage and sucking desparately on a =
>pacifier.  And I wonder what we're doing to our children.

Deborah Blum recently published a book about the guy who did these 
experiments. The title of the book is Goon Park (a play on the address of 
the facility where the experiments were done---poor handwriting turned 600 
N. Park into Goon Park).

regards,
Julia

Julia R. Barrett
Freelance Science Writer & Editor
Mom to Sean (5) and Kira (2)
Madison, Wisconsin

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