When a child failed to detach from the parent in a timely fashion, were the obsessive behaviors and arrested development the child’s fault? Or was the mother to blame, for overindulging her? Or maybe the responsibility lay with neither the child nor the mother. What was so wrong with not weaning a child? Why force a child to grow up? If a child refused, why place blame on anyone? Why not just not grow up? Why did such a tyrannical social imperative exist in the first place?
