The Primate Mother-Infant Bond

Mother-to-child relationship is the intimacy and attachment of mother and her child. These helpless babies depend on their mother's survival. This dependence far exceeds physiological needs. Babies depend on their mothers to meet various needs. Maternal and child relationships are important to maximize individual adaptability and species growth. In 1976, Martial H. Klaus and John H. Kennel published a book called "Parental Baby Bonding".

We must promote mental health, human beings other than mature human beings, or human primates, and to begin the path to success. Mothers and fathers of non-human primates need to develop emotionally healthy relationships with grooming, breastfeeding, baby protection, and human primate parents. It is also important that parents teach children how to identify basic goals, group norms and rules, and group leaders. Mothers should also teach other concepts such as the identity of the main group of babies, fathers, mothers, the status of parents in the same group, the position of future babies. This attachment will slowly give way to the next step of the ladder. The next step should include your baby's own attachment and integration with parents.

A particularly interesting primate research project from laboratory studies of nonhuman primates comes from early experiments on the separation of primate infants from mothers of Professor Hari Harlow. This research strengthens our focus on human research and helps to clarify how maternal and child separation can be a social determinant of bad human health. Briefly there is evidence of excessive aggressive behavior of fragile male primate descendants and the environmental interactions between genes associated with often heavier uptake of alcoholic beverages in these individuals.

Primates grow more slowly than other mammals. All primate babies depend on breastfeeding (except human culture and primates receiving various animals), carding and transporting their mothers. In some species, babies are protected and carried by group men, especially men who may be their fathers. Other relatives of babies like brothers and aunts can also participate in their care. Most primate mothers stop ovulation while breast feeding the baby; when the baby wean, the mother can breed. This usually leads to weaning disputes with infants seeking to continue breastfeeding