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    Mother’s affection at 8 months predicts emotional distress in adulthood

    @knotty I beg to differ. Two things: firstly, simply redefining to "primary caregiver" rather than "mother" would be perfectly acceptable and would likely yield easier recruitment and better generalizability. Some studies and researchers have already done this. Secondly, replication with a...
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    Mother’s affection at 8 months predicts emotional distress in adulthood

    @jesrdking Agreed. This is such a problematic through-line in a lot of parenting research, though - only mother-child dyads are recruited and studied. We really need more studies extending and demonstrating that these findings generalize to other primary caregivers (fathers, grandparents, etc)...
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