>   It was thought that babies did not love their mothers; the  behaviorists
> in the 1930s were of the persuasion that babies learned to love  their 
> mothers
> because their mothers fed them. This was common thought, until  Harlow's
> research showed that babies clung to the cloth mothers, even when the 
> wire mother
> was the one that 'fed' them.

NOW I understand where the notion that others must feed the baby in order to 
bond came from! I've heard of this research, but never caught that point 
before.

Freyja, LLLL, now up to speed in Fort Collins, CO

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