... deportation, and bereavement, and they had also suffered the disruption which was happening to families all over Europe. Bowlby studied in depth the children who had been separated from their parents and alongside this he interviewed disturbed adolescents, he found a strong link between what he called 'maternal deprivation' and the problems in adult life such as mental illness, delinquency and difficulties in parenting. (Beckett 2002) In 1946 John Bowlby had been requested to study the family history of 44 juvenile thieves, from his study Bowlby discovered that out of the 44 seventeen of them had been separated from their mothers for six months or more before their fifth birthday. He then compared his findings with 44 adolescents who already had emotional problems but where not 'thieves'. He noted that 14 showed affectionless psychopathy, they where also recorded as having no feelings of affection, warmth or concern for anyone. Bowlby firmly believed ...

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