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The Significance of the Home for the Child's Emotional Development During the First Six Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Kate Friedlander
Kate Friedlander*
Affiliation:
West Sussex Child Guidance Service
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I do not think that anyone, professional or layman, will contradict the statement that the family unit is, at least in our culture, the best medium for the growing child. Yet, although there is tacit recognition of this fact, it is only in recent years that more attention is being paid to providing for children, who in infancy are left without parents, with this most suitable environment for their development. In this and other countries there are still vast institutions, insufficiently staffed, entrusted with the task of bringing up hundreds of children who, we know, will become unsatisfactory citizens.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 395 , April 1948 , pp. 305 - 313
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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