Absence of concern for other people is likely to interfere with your child’s healthy growth and development. Without the experience of guilt for wrongdoing and without an awareness of or concern for others’ feelings, your child won’t have the internal checks and balances necessary to prevent him from behaving in a way that might hurt other people. A child who does not experience empathy could grow up to run roughshod over the needs and feelings of other people and will be unlikely to sustain meaningful, healthy relationships.
