The Need to Be Loved

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The Need to Be Loved

• By Lindsey Bechtel

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What fuels humans to reproduce?
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Is it the money they get to spend (over 200,000)
over the next eighteen years?
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Maybe its the countless nights of no sleep and
frazzled nerves for days on end...
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The only explanation, according to Harris, is the
existence of a major biopsychological need.
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The Need to be Loved
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Children fulfill the need for close, affectionate
and emotional relationships
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We need these relationships with supportive,
concerned, trustworthy and approving beings
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We need children because we need to be loved!
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There is plenty of evidence from clinical
psychology that show adults who were deprived of
parental affections suffered emotional
difficulties later on in life
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Psychologist Tiffany Field conducted an
experiment that found premature babies gained
weight 47 faster if they felt human touch just
fifteen minutes per day.
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This love is not selfless, it is expected that it
will be reciprocated, like every other human bond
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There is a culturally instructed expectation that
a balance will be struck between the give and
take of affections
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In a society whose relations are ruled by
ruthless competitions and laissez-faire
individualism, we need children to help us give
the love we crave. Marvin Harris