She does this with her eyes, her voice, her reactions. It is a transfer, if you will, of creative energy of love from her brain to the baby s brain through their senses, mainly their eyes. When we see the extensive studies since 1990 so brilliantly collected by Dr. Schore, it becomes obvious that the age-old fascination with motherhood has not been misplaced. This discovery has, of course, grave implications for our generation of professional mothers, but is also a cause for great joy. It promises to return to motherhood the primary and privileged importance which our ancestors gave it from earliest recorded time.
Mothers provide the first formation of the human heart.
And even more provably of the human brain, that mysterious organ whose electrical-chemical workings and development are increasingly known, but whose intuitive capacities remain unfathomable. But more is needed. More data, more facts are coming to light which show that mother and child, inextricably and indispensably as they are bound up, are not a complete family. Much as the social sciences and loving, well-intentioned people have wanted to believe it, a family without the dependable presence of a father suffers almost intolerable pressure. The data on poverty, school desertion, delinquency, violent crime, all indicate that fathers are essential.