Review of MOTHER LOVE: Myth and Reality

Reviews the book, Mother Love: Myth and Reality by Elisabeth Badinter (1981). Throughout the course of recorded human existence people seem to have been fascinated with human nature and its relation to the material and intangible worlds of experience. Amidst all the vicissitudes of philosophical and folk beliefs about human nature two basic and linked convictions seem to have been steadfast-that man will beget children upon women, and that by the process of being made mothers, women will love their offspring. Mother love as a natural female human characteristic has been a sustaining myth. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)