Various studies have shown how poorly children do in institutions where their physical requirements are met but their need for love is not. One study showed that children raised by their mothers in prison did better than children raised by highly trained professionals in a well-equipped institution.3 Another study found that the lack of love can actually be fatal for children.4 Harvard Medical School’s famous Grant Study, which followed the lives of hundreds of men for seventy-five years, concluded that the most significant factor in life satisfaction is warm and loving relationships
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