In a message dated 97-03-11 00:12:47 EST, you write:

<< Date:    Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:21:55 -0600
 From:    Patricia Gima <[log in to unmask]>
 Subject: Re: Parent's Love (long)

 >Hi Netters,
 >I just noticed a study on the Reuter's news on the web about the effect
 >of perceived warmth of a parent's love on their child's health 35 years
 >later. The study was published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine
 >(1997;20(1):1-13).

 I want to tell you a story about my father's family.  There were four sons,
 born in 1913+.  My grandmother was very well read and was exposed to Emmett
 Holt's advice of training and programming children from day one.  She was a
 most detatched mother who believed that she should hold her sons minimally,
 rocking would damage their brains, etc.  They were left to cry alone and
 were trained by the clock and calendar.

 Everything went as she ordained...except for one son.  Grandmother had a
 maid named Mamie who loved third son, Bill, and there used to be many
 stories in the family of how Mamie spoiled Bill and carried him and cuddled
 him when Grandmother wasn't around--which was often as she was a busy woman
 of the community. Grandmother scolded her often for her transgressions.

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Patricia,   Thank you for your family story.  Publishable or not it
represents what many of us have "thought " for years.  "It is good to be
here".
Liz Flight