How are children affected by not having a mother?

Question

I was just wondering how children, women, in particular are affected by not having a mother in their life. Their is so much research on how children are affected by not having a father...I was wondering what is the case for not having a mother present. How does it affect someone socially?

Answer 1

I was effected by not having much of a mother,....I needed to have daughters..had two sons,..but I neede daughters...I didn't realize why until ten years later when I held my daughter and it cost/loss me dearly that it was because I needed that mother daughter relationship,..whether it be with my mom or my daughter it was missing in my life and had to be fulfilled..had I realized why I had such a strong desire to have a daughter before hand ,I may have decided it wasn't worth the loss...but both daughters are every thing to me and I live with my decisions.

Answer 2

Not having a mother has a deep impact on my life. Mom died 8 years ago and I was 20 years old back then. I was very upset, I felt confused and very lonely...I cried so much, I had some health problems(chronic diabetes), but I became more caring somehow...I think that a child who has no mother is mostly unfortunate...They need help, they need a mother figure in their life...We must help such children because their disaster lies deep inside their hearts...They need help and comfort for their loss.

Answer 3

I think not having the love a mother can give to their child. As a mother I know I am very important to my children. Maybe not learning how to be loving capationate expressing their feeling because some men dont express love and feeling well. I think a mother knows what children really need.... Good luck to u...

Answer 4

Probably a sense of loss in the way that there is no loving, caring, sensitive parent in his/her life. For girls, i think they would have a harder time learning the rules of how girls should and shouldnt behave since they don't have a mother to show them, and just like children who grow up without a father, some might lash out and become rebellious teens because their life is unbalanced.

Answer 5

They miss the tenderness of a mother's love and consequently cannot give such love when they become mothers. A simplistic view, but probably true (unless the damage was repaired by motherlike people in early childhood). I am not a psychologist and may be totally wrong.

I had a mother who probably loved me but was also a strict disciplinarian and that might have contributed to my own inability to be tender with my wife and kids.

Answer 6

i think they'd be facing some lack of emotional care...because no matter how much fathers can be friendly and caring to their children, mothers are more able to show love and care...and can also communicate with their children more easily than men or fathers.........this is what i think!