Apter, Gisèle
Interactions between Parent/baby, Girl or Boy: What Are the Differences?
- 2016.
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Boy babies and girl babies are recognized as such at birth. This aspect has always been expected or worried about in every culture and society throughout the ages. It is because it has been established that the competences between the two sexes could vary, that today the differences can be seen. Whatever the positive or negative valence, they point to the existence of specificities in the interaction between parent and child... The question still remains: are these specificities of interaction already present so early in development that they can be considered innate? What might the causes of this be, can they be identified from a very early age? Are they a source of differences which should be taken into account for the harmonious development of the child? And if so, how? It seems, thus, that there remains much to be done to respond to such simplistic questions as those on the nature of difference. There remains so much to study, such as the respective weights of sex, culture, social aspects, psychopathology, the interaction between the sexes, culture, parenthood, pathology... and especially the decision of what to do with it.