Maternal Deprivation and Its Consequences for Nurturing
During the 1950s, Harry Harlow and his colleagues (including his wife, Margaret) con ducted a series of experiments concerning affection and attachment. Harlow (1971) was concerned about the nature of attachment of mothers for their babies. of babies for their mothers, of fathers for their babies, of children for each other, and so forth. One of Harlow's questions concerned the effects of maternal deprivation on children, but ethics prevented him from using them as human subjects. Therefore, he chose to experiment on monkeys.