This essay intends to define 'Maternal' and 'Deprivation' and Bowlby's Maternal Deprivation Hypothesis (1953). Following this, I aim to discuss some of the research of Michael Rutter (1976 and 1981), Tizard and Hodges (1978), and Cockett and Tripp (1994) who all challenged Bowlby's concept of Maternal Deprivation. Following these challenges, I will briefly state that Bowlby (1956) ended up readdressing his own theory on 'Maternal Deprivation'. The definition of maternal in the "Oxford Concise Dictionary" (1995) is "of or like a mother, …showed first 75 words of 1248 total…

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