Entry 4- Final

In many of the journals that I have read including “The Relationship between Mothering In Infancy, childhood experience and adult mental health”, they have shown that mother's do make a positive impact in a child's life and without being  present a child can suffer from a lack of emotional and physical support early in life. It also affects the amount of affection that a child is willing and comfortable to show later in life, which therefore eventually affects the way a child interacts with every person they come in contact with or have a relationship with. I do believe that there is a lot of information out there about this topic but it is not on the surface you have to look pretty hard to find what you are looking for, not that it is covered up but simply because it is overlooked. The assumption that I had when I started my research to answer this question was that I would find a lot of biased articles on bad parenting but in return I have found very scholarly journal s and articles based upon legitimate studies conducted by many renowned psychologists at many leading Universities including the University of Amsterdam and the University of Berkley in California.



I agree that mother's play a surprisingly big role in the way a child grows up and even the actions that they choose later in life. I am not stating that if a mother isn't perfect in her nurturing role that she would produce bad behavioral children but I do believe there is an effect in many ways. I do believe that fathers play a role but I am focusing on mothers because in most cases they are the nurturers and caregivers. The research I have found shows that as long as a mother is present and caring to some extent that it has shown to indeed impact the amount of social and emotional behavior that a child conducts on a normal day to day basis.



In my opinion in my research I have covered many topics but there are still some grey areas where more research needs to be done, specifically in areas where I am trying to find facts to back up my argument in multiple ways, more ways than only talking about how the mother influences the future. I need to figure out the answer to the inquiry questions verses trying to choose one side or the other so that I can prove that a mother's nurturing role is affective in a child's actions emotionally, mentally, and physically. As I further my research I am going to try to understand what ways the child affects their future and where you can say the mother has influenced them. I am still curious about the ways in which mothers influence children physically, such as through relationships and their abilities to be social around others.