Grief, A Peril in Infancy (Spitz and Wolf, The Research Project, 1947)

This film shows the effect upon infants of prolonged absence of the mother. A number of babies in a foundling home are shown. The film indicates that among infants under a year old, if the mother returns after an interval of fewer than three months, their recovery is rapid. If the absence is prolonged beyond this period, it becomes impossible to achieve contact with them, and they become passive and apathetic and begin to suffer damage to their personalities. The film suggests that it is the emotional climate provided by the mother that allows the child's mind to develop normally.
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[@wingv313]

My heart truly aches for any children that feel this pain.💔 These videos remind me that I’m so glad I held my babies as much as I could, didn’t care if anyone said I would “spoil” them, and always gave them cuddles & kisses. A mothers love is so important to a baby’s emotional,physical & intellectual growth.

[@MrsPicklesIsHome]

Your children are so very lucky.

[@tronnie3831]

I wish I had been your kid

[@itsninjamo752]

I am of the opinion a baby can not be truly spoiled with affection or attentiveness. The fact that people even say that has boggles my mind. ❤ here’s to sweet baby snuggles and being there when they are scared or needing comfort.

[@lindalaw8368]

My mother was sick and in hospital when I was 5 months old. I stopped eating and my dad brought her home. She couldn’t care for me, but she was there and that was enough. I’m 74 and was so close to my mom until she passed. My heart breaks for these children😢❤

[@teridoster5840]

I was abandoned by my mother at 15 months and left in the care of my incredibly physically and psychologically abusive father (along with my 3yr old sister). The next time I saw her I was 16 yrs old & saw her like 3 times for a couple hrs, the next time was when I tracked her down n saw her for ½hr when I was 20 (newly married & pregnant with my only child), and the last time was 5 yrs ago when I was 48 & she finally wanted to be part of my life. Too little, too late. You can't imagine the lifelong lasting implications for a child raised without any parental love or affection. I still feel the consequences of her decision, 50+ years later.

[@teridoster5840]

@@urspendy thank you, I'll check out that channel right now 💜 I'm already in counseling (finally started about 4 yrs ago), but adding something else could never hurt!

[@karmaround]

😭🤗

[@chaychristiansen9156]

Terri Doster same here. Except I was 4 with 2 younger sisters my mother abandoned as well. We were left with our alcoholic father who was verbally and physically abusive. We were neglected. My mother disappeared off the face of the earth until I was 13. She was abusive to us when she returned. I currently have no relationship with her.

[@teridoster5840]

@@chaychristiansen9156 I don't have a relationship w/ my mother or father at this point. It's healthier for me to keep my distance. About 5 yrs ago I was trying to have a relationship w/ my father for prob the 4th time over the years, but it affected my cPTSD too much when he brought some woman over from the Philippines (younger than me) w/ her 5 kids & married her, then they had a kid together. It was too traumatizing to watch him get angry w/ the kids, even tho he never did anything physical in front of me it just brought back too much for me to handle. And he's still an active alcoholic. My mother finally tried to be in my life a couple years ago (when I was 48), but she has the self awareness of a thimble & still believes she had no other choice, so I don't really talk to her anymore. I have 2 sisters & a brother that she started having within a year of abandoning us. I've tried reaching out to them, but it's painful for me, they had the life my sister & I deserved, not full of abuse, & they can't reconcile that their mother can be the same person that I know her to be. She just moved on & replaced us, & never looked back. I'm sorry you went thru it as well. We're in a very selective club that we didn't ask for or want to be a part of, but nonetheless here we are, trying to deal w/ the aftermath as best we can. {Hugs}

[@aquaearthnfirequ_pinsnsavi1721]

JUST WANTED TO SAY; I LOVE YOU AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU! I KNOW SOMEWHAT OF WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH, BUT THAT'S NEVER SUFFICIENT ENOUGH TO DETERMINE THE MAGNITUDE OF YOUR GREATNESS! TERI DOSTER, I AM PROUD OF YOU, I AM IN ALL OF YOUR BRAVERY AND STRENGTH. FOR ONE HAS TO BE SOMETHIN TRULY SPECIAL, EXTRAORDINARY, UNIQUELY AND WONDERFULLY MADE TO MAKE IT TO 50 AFTER THE DARKNESS YOU LET ENGILF YOU! YOU ARE A FIGHTER AND IM HONORED TO HAVE VISITED THIS KZbin CHANNEL, TO HAVE CLICKED ON THIS VIDEO, TO READ YOUR STORY, YOUR JOURNey this far. Thank you!! For your Bravery, for sharing you STORY despite the pain, you are helping me in many ways, not just one! I am truly grateful for everyone who commits in this video bc I know first hand the pain of abandoned (well it's hitting me now, disrupting my life without anytime to brace for impact due to lack of any kind of warning! Its very damaging and I'm not doing well enough for my inner critic, Ego, anxiety and now a sudden on-set of unknown origin of full blown debilitating, embarrassing Panic! I keep it all bottled inside, I am not the total opposite of who I once knew myself to be.

[@angelblue7779]

This is very hard to watch. I just want to hold and comfort these poor innocent little angels.

[@linafelina]

think the whole point is that you cant no one can but mum

[@jackiegreen3444]

sick sick human experiments.

[@burgermister7580]

They are now 59

[@marcelaperalvo8806]

I'm crying 😢

[@jl12h60]

Evil.

[@emmajo8440]

As a former daycare worker my question is what is it doing to your children being placed in that setting 40 plus hours a week? Im now a mother and I will never never put my children in a daycare.

[@monie7693]

I worked in a day care also many years ago. It broke my heart. Some of those little babies looked so lost and listless. The light went out of their eyes when their mothers left. They just looked sad. I recall one mother who didn't even have a job, yet she dropped her baby girl off as soon as she was 6 weeks old. She'd be there at 630 am until 6pm 5 days a week. Her sad little eyes haunted me. Some children were more resilient and didn't seem to be as affected. I used to wonder if the more resilient ones received lots of maternal love when they were at home. A hygienic facility can supply nappy changes and all the cut up fruit in the world, but it can't supply a mother's love.

[@sydgamer6665]

Used to work for a nice nursery in a very nice city within the last 5 years. The place really opened my eyes to how bad parents can be. We had some children who would eat all 3 meals with us every day of the week, these 3 month - 3 year olds would only go home to sleep. Even being open from 6am to 6pm we still got complaints about not having longer hours... Some of these children didn't want to go home, they would clutch my leg and ignore their parents. I had a child scream bloody murder when I tried to hand him to his grandmother, he didn't know her face. The mom latter admits this, I was shocked. I would see these same parents staring at their phones when the children were performing plays for them. Couldn't be bothered to watch the child's whopping 3 minute play, technology is so much cooler to watch than the flesh being they gave life to and had no choice in the matter. And what's sad is this was pretty normal coworkers told me. I had children dropped off with obvious pink eye and other contagious diseases, parents would run after dropping them and turn their phones on mute so we couldnt call them back to get the sick babes. Also had babies dropped off in heavily soiled diapers that had obviously been left for more than an hour or two (diaper rash had set in already), parents would leave it knowing "ahh the staff have it", never mind the child's pain and suffering, that's apparently not a factor. And yes, child services were brought in for some parents but at the end of the day not all of this is punishable and again pretty common, and what's sad is I was in a "nice" area.

[@biancamomot3980]

Gosh your story is sadly so true, I never let anyone mind my children and I wouldn't dream of leaving them in a childcare center because the thought of something happening to them. I was surprised though to hear about your situation and that so many parents we're very neglectful

[@noongourfain]

@sydgamr6665 Oh my god!!! Can you tell us which "nice" city? Why do these people HAVE children when they can choose not to? Your story is very, very troubling. This is so obviously why our society is going down hill so quickly. Mass shootings and all the other things young adults perpetrate once they can act on their feelings........ That I haven't heard this TREND on some news channel really frightens me. And what frightens me more than not knowing about the SYSTEMIC neglect of small children is that nothing is being done?! We are obviously just seeing the tip of the ice burg in news reports. What is going on behind closed doors now? I shudder to think about it. And the government must know the stats? How could they not! Your comment is 3 years old...where are we now? Not better and no one is talking about this!?

[@adimeter]

That's heartbreaking.

[@glitterfartsss]

For those in the comment section who relate to these children... I wanna say I'm so proud of you all, and I'm so sorry about how your parents didn't do what parents should have done. You are deserving of so much love in your upbringing and I hope you can see how strong and amazing every single on of you are. My heart goes out to you, and I hope you are healing in spite of your parents.

[@adimeter]

Thank you. I am in excellent therapy☺

[@adimeter]

Thank you. You are beyond kind.

[@gailhatch3282]

As an adoptee, this film gives me some insights as to why I don't trust people. I can recall being told I cried a lot when my adopting parents got me at 3 months old from the forster family who'd had me since birth. Because my (adoptive) mother felt she had "spoiled" my sister by holding her too much, she resisted comforting my cries.

[@annmarie2964]

I think it happens a lot

[@adimeter]

Shame on your adoptive mother.

[@hellosweetheart3350]

Maybe, maybe not. I grew up in a beautiful home, my mom loved and caressed, and cared for me beyond and I was a cry baby lol

[@teijaflink2226]

Disgusting what your adaptive mother did to you.

[@MyLady22]

I couldn’t let my baby cry in her crib for more than a few minutes. It broke my heart. Seeing those sweet faces cry in their cribs made me cry. I wanted to sweep them up for cuddles and kisses. I need to volunteer to cuddle orphans.

[@suzienada7253]

Mom died when I was 2. I hardly knew her, but I think I've been searching for that feeling ever since. Nothing can replace a mother, no matter how messed up she was. And then you feel kind of guilty for missing somebody that hurt you / your family so badly. Sending love to anybody struggling. We made it this far without them, and we can continue to do so. You are your own person. ♥

[@SuperWilliamholmes]

I'm watching these because I am a 47 year old man who was separated from my mother at the age of one year old or a little after. I was sent to live with relatives and passed around for the next three years. Although I was loved and cared for, I did not see my mother again until I was almost five and didn't recognize her. It was very traumatic and I was told I had to go with her. I lived most of the rest of my childhood with my mother, but always had a difficult relationship. Maybe we never fully bonded. Maybe subconsciously I never forgave her. I have huge abandonment and self worth issues. Like nobody ever wanted me. I have a people pleasing problem because I'm afraid people will abandon me. Even people who are not a large part of my life. I believe between birth and four years old are the most formative years of a child's emotional growth. It's clear that not having a maternal bond and nurturing will cause major damage to a person's ability to cope with their environment and develop meaningful relationships. I've had quite a bit of therapy in my life and thank God my wife is an understanding woman, because my hang ups over issues involving females in my life have complicated our relationship for sure. I have three children, two of whom are still young (two and seven years old). How blessed all of my children are to have grown up with two loving parents.

[@adimeter]

I'm sorry that happened to you. I wish you well.

[@brooketaylor799]

Hi. Similar situation and I joined Codependents anonymous. It’s for people from traumatic backgrounds who people please, fear abandonment, failure at relationships etc.

[@rhondamadgirl]

Was anyone else hollering, “Just pick her up!”?

[@snarkasticsquid2435]

rhondamadgirl Only 927 times...

[@coloradogirl5390]

Yes I was..

[@adamfox1669]

You need a license to drive, but anyone can have a child...that's scary stuff.

[@reginahumphres9293]

@Black Widow No why they don't pick her up because they want to study her they want to see how she reacts when she's sad and lonely missing her mommy doctors were so cruel back then probably still are. I don't see how any mother could just leave their baby for testing like that I've watched documentaries on the doctors back in those days the doctors would do all kinds of things to scare the babies and put them in different situations to see how they would react, it was sickening to watch even in this video when no one little girl was just laying there not doing any movement then all of the sudden she starts Shakin back and forth back and forth that wasn't a natural fit of the baby that was him shaking her feet back and forth to make her cry. The Documentary i saw watching was about depression in babys and young adults they were treated no better than a guinea pig. documentaries actually

[@YouKnowMeDuh]

@@reginahumphres9293 Not all hospitals knew how to properly care for babies. What we know and do now is based on their successes and failures :(

[@MarysPanheadPub]

Lost my mother at 3yrs old. I'm now 53. I still feel the loss. No one can replace a mother's love. My father remarried a year after .still wasn't the same even though I consider my stepmother my mom. I still feel that abandonment.

[@RobinMayhall]

I am so sorry for your loss. 😕

[@suzieq8379]

i'm so sorry

[@SharkBellyKelli]

Same,except i was 4

[@haretyper4954]

My son was 2 when his dad, my husband, died 7 years ago. I fear he will feel this way his entire life too. I wish I could do something about it. It's a constant heartbreak for us. I am so sorry you lost your mom and feel how you do. Hugs and love to you ❤

[@karmaround]

How did your mom die? I was 18months when my biological mother died. (I'm now 41)(I was always told she died in a car accident when she was 26, then found out she may have committed suicide. (I'm still not sure how she died) I was not raised for my father because he about 6 months before my mom died was in a car accident and had a head injury that made it impossible for him to live on his own. Anyway life is crazy blessings to all

[@magnificent6668]

They did not cause these separations, but simply showed the effect on the infant of them. It was a rather revolutionary idea that infants needed more than good food & medical to thrive. I think we've actually forgotten how important an intense connection with a Mother is for an infant, as many are just fed, cleaned and stored in car seats and cribs for 8+ hours a day, in "daycare"

[@catherinepoole9485]

Not the same. You seem intelligent enough, do u not see the difference

[@magnificent6668]

@@catherinepoole9485 The difference between...? Lack of stimulation and emotional disconnect is the same, no matter the setting...meanwhile, Autism is becoming painfully common. But yeah, must be the vaccines!

[@LadyCoyKoi]

It is even worse if those children have a physical or mental disabilities and/or disorders. Gabor Mate and Urie Bronfenbrenner talks a lot about the importance between the relationship of a caring loving adult who will model and demonstrate how to be a human being and the experiences one has with his/her environment. Mate, in an interview, discusses a lot on how you can take a mouse/child with a deficit and put him or her in an enriching/ stimulating environment with other mice , allow him/her to interact and experience this enriched stimulating environment... he or she will overcome those deficits and some times even progress/advance above his/her peers. This is why socializing, interacting, loving one another is so crucial and important to development, especially the development of the brain.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

@@magnificent6668 I hope you are being sarcastic with that last remark. Vaccines doesn't cause ASD in children or adults. 😑 There is more evidence that ASD is caused by a gene that is given mainly by fathers' defective sperm due to being over the age of 40, poor diet and lifestyle choices. Unlike womens' eggs (which are all given to her by the time she is born so they aren't as effected by environment), mens' sperm are sensitive to the environmental factors and health of the man, including his age, diet and lifestyle. Sperm is very sensitive to these environmental impacts and as a man age so do his sperm, so older men shouldn't be playing around after the age 40 with their childrens' genes by having kids at an age which his sperms' health start to deteriorate. Just because men can continue on producing sperm doesn't mean he could produce healthy sperm. That in one lottery gamble men need to stop playing around with. That is why there is an increase rise of ASD with each passing generation, selfish retards who wait till they are over the age of 40 with defective uterus and defective damaged sperm reproducing. 🙄

[@emmajo8440]

As a former daycare worker this is absolutely true. Your child will be fed,cleaned and kept safe but they will not have that one on one love and connection they desperately need. And for alot it's 40 plus hrs a week of their best awake time. We all know till evening they are tired and cranky and good chance the parents are too from working all day. Also daycare workers are very underpaid and alot of workers are working there just for the job. Not to love and nurture your child. I know not everyone can be a stay at home parent but it is usually the parents fault. Bad decisions. Divorce. And some just want more money. They choose fancy stuff over raising their own babies. Also if u have a baby/toddler that is more fussy/hyper/naughty than average,you can bet they will not be any bodies favorite. I could rant all night.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

The resulting affects would be these kids will grow up with addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and drug abuse to numb the pain they had felt since they were babies. That is how powerful implicit or emotional memory really is.

[@lorraineward4492]

They wont grow up they become rmetally ill and their limbs become deformed and they cant walk.They are definitly using them for experiments like this one and I'm sure more monsterous ones .Alot of these children go into these places with minor problems some with none and this is what happens to them , they become just like their environment .Keep watching the videos and you will get sick to your stomach from the things you'll see ....💦💔💦💔💦

[@LadyIarConnacht]

This is why the breakdown of the family is so pernicious in today's society. We expect infants, toddlers and grade school kids to suffer with what amounts to them as a terrible tragedy, and act like it's no big deal. Those who suffer from a society that changes partners like it changes socks are the children, and we are raising more and more broken children.

[@AP_777W]

True.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

Nonsense.There is no correlation what so ever on maternal neglect and addiction.There is however massive correlation on child sexual abuse and addiction

[@ms.anonymousinformer242]

@@LadyIarConnacht I agree.

[@poppykok5]

Many years ago I worked as a volunteer in the infant ward, at a Southeast Asian orphanage, in a heartbreakingly impoverished province...We volunteers held, fed, bathed, & played with these innocent little souls so they wouldn't be any further (emotionally) harmed by being separated from their 'families,' by just being left alone in their modest little cots all day until they were ready to be adopted.. We don't know a lot of the personal circumstances that led to many of the studies like this, of early infant neglect, but these studies were so profoundly important to the lifelong wellbeing of neglected/abandoned infants across the globe...All infants need to feel loved & experience mental & physical stimulation no matter what...

[@shellirk2819]

Yes they do.. it's truly heartbreaking to know there are so many babies and older children who suffer from neglect and parental love. The entire world has so many problems.

[@poppykok5]

@Southern Mema Hi, you're absolutely right about it being, "common sense," & how heartbreaking it still is in some countries like the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, etc., where this kind of institutional neglect is so pervasive, & the mental damage so severe, that when these children turn about 10 yr's old or so, & they're sent to live with other children & adults in "insane" asylums, where tragically, many of these innocent little souls are dead within the first few years of being institutionalized... It hurts my heart beyond words...

[@NitrosMom074]

poppykok5 ....God bless you!

[@poppykok5]

Thank you kindly, Kimmie...One of those "innocent souls" ultimately became my son (my only child) who is now a 30-year-old young man with a heart of gold... *: )*

[@timebot000]

@@shellirk2819 ...it's why homeless on streets are comfortable there, it's familiar to be just hanging out waiting for SOmething that never comes

[@snarkasticsquid2435]

10:45 This baby looks...haunted. By grief, sadness, loneliness. The look on his/her face just breaks my heart, I just want to hold him.

[@soft_serve_666]

This might be one of the saddest things I've ever seen. A mothers love is so important to a child. The look in their eyes isn't a normal, happy child not getting what they want or they're cranky because they're tired. It goes so much deeper than that. They've been rejected and there's so much emotional pain you can see plain as day. They're much to young to have that kind of pain and saddest in their eyes.

[@lukesarmysydneynswaustrali2456]

Is this back when they justified the removal of babies from teenage mothers? news is they are removing children at a far more increased rate, in fact, they remove children like a process of adoption like trafficking,is this why these kids were traumatized,they used to call kids retarded didn't they who were isolated like this? Perhaps they were trying to start selling them...

[@chickadee39]

It's not the mother leaving that's caused all this pain..It's the environment that they are in.. White walls white coats.. They should have been in their own family home with siblings, and dad, or, living with extended family members.. It would have been a different outcome.. Xx

[@AP_777W]

*no substitute..

[@soft_serve_666]

@Voracious Reader That was was one of the most pretentious, dry-heave worthy comments I've ever read on KZbin. Congratulations. Not an easy feat.

[@soft_serve_666]

@@chickadee39 That's not always the case for every family. Often toxic behavior is learned behavior that's passed down from generation to generation. Some children are better off away from their entire family (extended included). It's rare, but entire families can consist of horrible people.

[@cheyenneguthrie2828]

Why am I watching this? My 4 month old is napping in her bassinet and now I wanna wake her just so I can hold her

[@M1tchella]

My six month old is right beside me asleep and this is tearing me UP

[@SarcasticMary]

Maybe if someone picked Jane up and gave her love once in awhile, she wouldn't have cried like that. 🙄

[@franziiii]

No shit, Karen. Sit down and watch the video again

[@SarcasticMary]

@@franziiii Frickin Karen...

[@franziiii]

@@SarcasticMary have you watched the video again karen?

[@SarcasticMary]

@@franziiii No Karen, once was enough.

[@franziiii]

@@SarcasticMary too bad otherwise you wouldn't have left the stupid ass comment

[@Gen-yh1jz]

They are not holding these children, talking, or playing with these on a regular basis. These babies are just being fed and cleaned. Neglect by the staff is the big problem here.

[@carolisakallas3054]

I agree. They should be outdoors on swings, or in a playroom, playing with push toys, dolls, listening to music. Not stuck in a crib. That would depress anyone!

[@paulahogan5404]

They said it was because of lack of motherly love but in actual fact it was just lack of interaction.

[@spinachpuff9502]

Exactly! They are incredibly depressed. They basically got thrown into baby prison. Poor, sweet innocence

[@suzieq8379]

i was thinking the same thing they love on it for 3 or 4 mins then leave again no wonder the child feels abandoned again so sad where are their mothers

[@johannofrohan7067]

You know nothing of this place, other than what the camera has allowed you to see.

[@mistimcelveen7855]

These videos are so hard to watch, but they help reinforce to me how important I am in my children's lives

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

is that all you have to say ffs? no compassion have you for these poor neglected, abused Babies?

[@mistimcelveen7855]

@@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471 yeah, that's all I've got to say, as a child of neglect and abuse, and a mother of 4 with 2 autistic children, yes all I have to say is this makes me realize how much my children, especially my autistic children need me, because look at what happens when these children don't have adequate maternal care. How about go get a haircut Karen, that always seems to make you type feel better

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

I can remember the feelings of the weeping children. Man, it really f*cks you all up to be left with strangers all the time. My whole childhood I remember being terrified my mom would suddenly die and then I'd REALLY be left alone. (no, she wasn't sick. She divorced my dad and went back to work as a secretary and I had a depressing early childhood. )

[@louisacapell]

Well, they completely isolated and neglected Jane in a crib with nothing to look at or do and no physical love or attention. Maybe that has something to do with it?

[@nobody8328]

They barely touch Jane. They just watch her cry, but they pick up the white kid and cuddle it. 😡 I don't have or even like kids, but I am furious at these 'researchers'

[@chetyoubetya8565]

They didn't isolate any of the children they observed Jane in the care home she was in. They were not the care home staff.

[@louisacapell]

@@chetyoubetya8565 obviously we mean that they observed her being neglected in the care home.

[@blossom1643]

@@nobody8328 That’s right. It’s All about race isn’t it. Generally a stranger don’t pick up a scared baby. Especially if it’s already crying. 🙄

[@adrienneadskipper4212]

Fostered dogs are treated more humanely

[@owlthepirate5997]

That truly felt pain in my heart when watching all those beautiful, babies, cry, become depressed, and just give up... What mother would subject they're child to this!! How terrible!

[@MargieVarner44]

they didn't mention some die from lack of thriving when mom does come back.

[@roseweed1468]

My heart breaks for these, and so many other children.

[@ShawnPlusOne]

I’m near tears wanting to hold and cuddle each baby there’s no way I could let my child participate in this study it’s too cruel just watching them all gave me such anxiety I didn’t like watching babies suffer and cry from being separated from mom.😞🤦🏽‍♀️

[@June-tb4vi]

This was a study that the parents volunteered her child for?? Your kidding me 💔

[@ms.anonymousinformer242]

And they are now over 70 years old,if any of them are around still.

[@shannonweatherly3940]

At 12 minutes in it is explained that children had lost their mothers, although I’m sure some of the children in other parts of the study were abandoned or had been forced to be given up because they were from single mothers at the time. Basically, no parent volunteered their child for this study.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

@@shannonweatherly3940 All parents agreed to the study none of the children in the first part were orphans and in the second part, those infants were in a foundling home. Plenty of women gave children up willingly back then as well as today.

[@missyglittervlogs3543]

Omg im crying so hard for these angels! I wanna hold them and show them what love is! Poor babies! :(

[@Lily6806]

16:06 The child hugs the doctor because it has not had any physical contact.

[@hillarymerce5881]

All she wanted was to be held. I dont want to Invision the torture they all probably went through 😭😭😭

[@pamchandler1867]

I CAN'T IMAGINE A MOTHER ALLOWING THIS TO BE DONE TO HER CHILD!

[@katiemartell6520]

Neither can I.

[@emmaathome2902]

Pam Chandler Read the description, some are in a foundling home. Meaning they were abandoned or left to the public to find. Or, like some, the mother had to go away.

[@meichelle2000]

Agreed!!!

[@hillarymerce5881]

Pretty sure it probably wasnt done willingly

[@MeatPuppet1962]

At least they weren't aborted.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

The estate of being abandon by ones mother made that child "shut down". He/she is in a state of shock. As if asking, "Why is this happening?", "Mommy doesn't love me?" and other related questions.

[@carriemummy]

This is so sad. I started life like this. I was given up for adoption 4 days after birth, given to a Foster mother for 4 months then finally to my Mum. My Mum tells me that I wouldn't sleep unless she held my hand for a long time and, I don't suppose I'm clearly remembering being 4 months old but I do remember that feeling of desperately wanting my Mum. I would also never let any else push my pram. I felt insecure for a long time and I grew up to have a lot of problems with anxiety and OCD. I'm in my 50s now and finally more relaxed about the world.

[@ilyhampter]

I can relate. My mother and father abandon me as a baby and I failed to connect to people on a personal level until I was introduced to my first boyfriend who displayed a great extent of love to teach me how to bond bc I wouldn’t commit to anyone bc I was raised wealthy and in solitude by my grandparents. My family had warned him when meeting me, which hurt later on once he told me they warned him.

[@nicolemurphy2629]

Meow Lisa disown them It isn’t your family’s business to warn a bloke you choose to marry, sick.

[@timgreen2426]

I hope you persevered and thrived, living a full life in spite of them. I sincerely do.

[@tessaoshea5697]

The point is that the children were being cared for well. Obviously they weren't picked up and bounced around during the filming but they were being looked after affectionately the rest of the time. The babies didn't want anyone, they wanted their mom. This kind of film was designed to show how important primary caretakers are (It said mother or substitute) so don't get mad at the film maker! It was made specifically to argue against the neglect of babies' emotional needs by contemporary hospitals.

[@BuddhaBeanie]

This happened to me. 50 some years later....still causes issues in my life.

[@ruthgoddard6539]

Bless you .so so sorry. Why was this done to you

[@janeokeeffe5297]

Sorry that happened to you

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

how do you know? Can you possibly share your story with us please?

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

@@LM-hb6yn so so sorry hun - you have the inner strength to throw your past to te Wind - move on with your life, have kids and give them plenty of loving and security - it will and can happen x

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

@@LM-hb6yn ❤💖

[@trustbirthaugusta]

THIS IS SICK A FORK! Why are they allowed to do this to these children? I cannot handle it either, that kind of insecurity and pain those children need to be ADOPTED and not "tested"

[@lori6037]

Voracious Reader People are allowed to leave their comments. Maybe you shouldn’t read them if it triggers you so much!

[@chetyoubetya8565]

You do understand these were scientists who observed infants in a care home they were in not staff. They did not do any of the children's care while they lived in the home. They observed children and observed how the children acted when they were interacting with them.

[@Jade12568]

This was cutting edge for the times. This kind of research is both barbaric and antiquated. Hard to watch . I cannot understand how anyone could let this little baby suffer so, information is not worth emotional abuse.

[@HealingHappyAli]

And although this research exists CPS still fails at times in being extra careful not to remove children without verification of just cause. I took EXCELLENT care of the babies and kiddos that got to visit me but I wasn't their Mom and their hearts ached.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

How is it barbaric?? or antiquated? How would you study early maternal deprivation?? or breaks in attachment with some dolls?? Your comments are foolish.

[@itsme2365]

Why did all these moms leave? I hope it wasn’t for these tests!!!!

[@lori6037]

Itsme 23 I was thinking the same and I do think they were left for research purposes. I could never leave my baby for 6 hours let alone 6 months as some of these babies were!

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

probably unmarried Mothers, truth be known. Convents and such places took them away saying they were going to put them up for Adoption - the Mums returned to their Parents having stayed with 'Auntie for a few months (for their Neighbours benefit) and just got on with their lives! This was very common back in the day and to be an unmarried Mum was a Massive Sin.

[@ms.anonymousinformer242]

@@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471 Yes, this makes sense. Wow, did not think of that.

[@Jadedyxy]

No amount of money also will make me want to do this

[@lumailisa]

Back in the day... When babies were sick and had to go to hospital many times parents were either not allowed to go in with them or discouraged from visiting. Maybe they thought the frequent separation anxiety made it worse for the children. Secondly, there weren't the same level of social protections so when things went wrong you often had to give your child up as often there was nobody to help. For example as a single person or unmarried couple if your landlord found out they would throw you out and nobody would rent a room to you. Thirdly, the parents themselves may have been sick and required hospital care. Who knows. I'm not saying any of these things apply to the children above but they are some of the possible explanations

[@chickadee39]

12:57 These babies are not like this because they don't have their mothers...They are like this because they have been brought up in a damn institution!!!!! 14:50 The baby is self soothing.. We see this in babies in the orphanages!..

[@ruthgoddard6539]

Without love or allowed to play or interact with others. Not all chrildren are like this only when they are ignored or kept from love

[@chickadee39]

@@ruthgoddard6539 Yes, Ruth.. Exactly!.. These people starved these babies of affection, and love... That's why they got the results they did.. If they had done this study with the mother absent for 3 months, but with the children in their family home surrounded with their family, excluding the mother.. It would have been a different result.. These children would have thrived, even though the mother was absent... In my opinion...

[@ruthgoddard6539]

@@chickadee39 o agree

[@joanbaczek2575]

If you read the writing in first half of the film it clearly states they were separated from mom and when!!!! The second half are children in orphanage who lost their mother after age if 4 months. The babies in the second half were in orphanages more than 3 mos. the babies in first half of film were separated from mother for less than 3 mos . You can see the longer the separation the worse the failure to thrive!!phsically and emotionally

[@chickadee39]

@@joanbaczek2575 Yes.. I know they were defenatly separated from the mother.. I wasn't disputing that.. They were also separated from the whole family, and were placed in a institution... What I said was.. *If the children had been separated from the mother, BUT!!..Where still in the family home with siblings, father, and extended family, ie grandparent, and aunties /uncles.. The results of theses tests would have had a completely different result.. They weren't just removed from the mother but the whole family!!. Then placed in a institution that was white walls white coats.. That would drive anyone into despair!!.. I personally think these tests were not accurate.. In my opinion. X

[@therealfinnaspring8585]

They kinda made it sound like maybe Jane's mother came back. I hope she did. These babies are really heartbreaking to watch. They are all grieving and so lonely and so needing comfort. Edit: happy that all of the the first 3 babies mothers returned and the babies returned to happiness. Heartbroken to see the babies from the orphanage and see their developmental delays :(

[@andreemariaboyd3947]

I would be Interesting to know what kind of adults they became.

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

I would also love to come face to face with these Perpetrators! I'd swing for them!

[@zyanyacasanova1432]

They didn't. Many of these babies died before the second year.

[@lucyterrier7905]

@@zyanyacasanova1432 That is not true. In this experiment the mother returned. Many children ended up in orphanages post war, they didn't die. With this knowledge, they developed how to help these children suddenly left without thrir mother.

[@timebot000]

@@lucyterrier7905 ...these unprimitive caregivers with cameras could have wrapped those babies up and kept them on thier backs like the Africans and hippies, but nooooo, a jail-bed makes more sense to them in order to watch and record the effects. Like that was Learning something? Wierd....

[@summerfunrides]

theDiamond Portal they weren’t suppose to touch to comfort. They were testing the child’s psychological actions and depression. 😕

[@stephanieyoung7875]

This is heartbreaking to watch. I’m crying and I can’t control it..

[@michellesartori6695]

I'm Australian and there's a band from the 1980's that had a hit with a song "What about me". Whenever I watch something sad like this I remember the words "How can you just walk away from me when all I can do is watch you leave". It guts me because as sad as I am seeing these infants in pain THIS is the 1960's. My grief is not just for them but for the children who are neglected TODAY, who are shoved in a cot in a room all alone because mum and/or dad wants to play games on their phone or computer. I'm reminded of a story from South Korea and it was about 3 years ago now but these parents had a 5 month old daughter who died weighing 9 pounds at that age at her death because they were too busy playing a game called "2nd life" which I understand is a role playing game, and they were looking after their "family" there and so their "real life" child starved to death. I was separated from my own mother for over 2 months when I was 18 months old. I went to have my dislocated hip repaired at the Children's Hospital and at the same time my pregnant mother was hospitalized because of a melanoma on her leg, so she was undergoing surgery and chemo and I was in traction 50 miles away. She has passed now but I remember her telling me that she thought I might not recognize her and that I cried when I saw her. Obviously I can't recall my emotions from that time but I expect I did wonder where she'd gone. But my father's parents came and visited me daily and I had someone who loved me. But my ex husband had a mother who didn't care for him or his little sister. She abandoned them when he was 5 and his sister was 3. I can tell you that it DID affect him during his life and the older I've got the more I've come to realize the impact that rejection and the flow on effects of having to be placed in an orphanage had on him, but I was too young to realize while we were still married. Poor little children, then AND now!

[@chickadee39]

This annoyed me so much.. These poor babies were experiments!!... If this is where these babies lived for those 3 months.. How the heck could they tell these babies behaviour was down only to the absence of the mothers?... If these babies had been at home for the 3 months, in surroundings they were familiar with... With other siblings, grandparents, aunties,and uncles.. Most importantly the father!!!... I can assure you these babies would have thrived happily.. No wonder the poor little darlings were depressed in that clinical, white coats environment.. We all know how psychologists etc dealt with mental health back then.. Yeh, just read the horror stories of the asylums back then or should I say torture chambers.. These poor wee babies should have been at home with their family, or living with relatives.... 😠

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

Glad i'm not the only one who feels this way! Its absolutely inhumane treatment for Babies and Tots to be used simply as experiments! Not that far off the terrible 'experiments done in Germany etc - it reminds me of them! What kind of hard-hearted Evil People were these Observing Behaviours??

[@chickadee39]

@@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471 I totally agree, Linda.. x

[@ean5469]

The only good thing about any of this is how it changed children’s hospital care. Mothers/caregivers were never allowed in for fear it would ‘upset the baby’ because they cried when she left. Now mother’s are ENCOURAGED to stay. There is an expectation that the parents of hospitalized infants will be present as much as possible

[@martinasikk6162]

Chickadee, I truly relate to you, I wrote part of my and my Estonian familys history in my other comment. Many young children lose one or both parents, they certenly grieve, and suffer, but they don’t become mentally retarded, if they have a loving family. My adopted daughter has had her problems, but we are her family, and she is a most beautiful, loving, intelligent and strong woman. The other swedish families who adopted at the same period as we, also have thriving children. I am now 65, my parents were from Estonia, where now all my relatives live, but have a son 26 and a daughter 23. Martina 🇪🇪🇸🇪

[@ms.anonymousinformer242]

I agree.

[@jthor3097]

This film depicts scenarios of children whose mothers may have been to ill to care for them or if the mother went to prison, etc. The mothers didn’t necessarily “ALLOW” their child to be separated from them. Life happens. Our goal as adults should be to see that no child EVER feels alone. We can volunteer, foster, adopt, or whatever. Children are gifts from god. ❤️

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

probably unmarried Mothers, truth be known. Convents and such places took them away saying they were going to put them up for Adoption - the Mums returned to their Parents having stayed with 'Auntie for a few months (for their Neighbours benefit) and just got on with their lives! This was very common back in the day and to be an unmarried Mum was a Massive Sin.

[@potatowarrior747]

This was a truly heart wrenching and cruel of an experiment.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

It wasn't an experiment. All these children were left in care due to family situations. All this was scientific observations they did not make any of those children's situations.

[@meichelle2000]

This is sooo sad!! I wonder what happened to them all.. I dont know how these drs and nurses cant NOT pick up the baby's when they cry like that.. Makes me want to bring them all home =(

[@sandywhat2429]

I wonder what they did to this child. Psychiatry has often bordered on evil. We have no idea of the real story.

[@sandywhat2429]

@Blue psychiatry is evil. God only knows.

[@chinacat.6923]

I wonder what kind of parents allowed their children to be used in these experiments.

[@sandywhat2429]

@@chinacat.6923 Disadvantaged. Poverty. Orphans. Minorities. Drug addicts, mental health issues, uneducated. Psychiatrists take advantage where they can. They easily gaslight vulnerable people.

[@dingobabie]

I understand what everyone is complicating about but what I want to say is without the research and everything we wouldn't have understood things we understand now ...it looks bad it may have been bad but it allowed us to understand things better things we didn't even know about .. How the brain and emotion develops ... Hate me and my comment if you want but you know it's ture.

[@ameriaohnstad2925]

@@chinacat.6923 this was in the 40s. consent for a black mother and child wasn't valid.

[@marthahill1377]

Desertion...A cruel realization.It has a ripple effect. THE BABY MAY NEVER BE ABLE TO FORM ATTACHMENTS TO ANOTHER HUMAN. Personal experience.

[@reneepeacock176]

At 4:04 the baby starts crying and kicking. It’s obvious that the child’s torso and arm are secured/tied down.

[@mylink.orb17]

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. If she wasn't restrained right then, her body language says she usually is.

[@kmeccat]

OMG. So sad! Obviously, a mother's love is needed by babies. The problems begin when mother dies, is imprisoned, lost or is violent towards her children. Then what? My feelings>>>what these children need are loving interactions--actually being picked up, carried around and talked to played with and loved. Feeding, changing and leaving them in the crib with lack of love and sensory stimulation is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately some mothers don't give their children love or sensory stimulation either...and the child is better of with someone who will.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

Children are better off with a pack of wovles who seem to understand the importance of being validated as a member of society... even if it is a pack of wolves, iit is better than nothing at all.

[@hauntedhistory8788]

@@LadyCoyKoi fuck the pack of wolves ! shoot them in the head you dumb fuck wit

[@chickadee39]

The problem with these babies in this video, is their environment. If the mother was gone for 3 months, and these babies were at home.. In familiar surroundings with siblings, and their father, or extended family they would never have turned out like this.. These children are similar to children in orphanages.. When this video was made these kids were in a institution, we see similar today with kids from orphanages.. When this film was made it was the times of electric shocks, and children on the spectrum would have been sent to the asylums.. They really didn't know what we know today.. Do this experiment today, and the outcome would be totally different.. X

[@hillarymerce5881]

They didnt need to do some sick studies to figure that out. Everyone already knows that a mother and child bond is like no other. Even if it was never said our soul feels it. These are sick physcotic "doctors." Doing this for their own demented pleasure!

[@MargieVarner44]

yes that was my case would have been better off adopted. at lest thise parents want a child.

[@TheGandzia73]

I’m a new mother and it’s heartbreaking for me to watch, I would love to just comfort them. I actually sweated so much watching this video. When my baby was few weeks old my husband would take her to a different room each evening for couple of hours so I could get some uninterrupted sleep. Every time I woke up from my rest I was covered in sweat. Separation anxiety?

[@djholliday4413]

This is so incredibly sad and difficult to watch. How could medical professionals not comfort these babies properly, and just leave them in depression and despair? Thank God that society has evolved somewhat. The true tragedy, is that there was & always will be abandoned babies who never know a mother's love. It will impact their entire lives.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

You do understand these were scientists who observed infants in a care home they were not staff. They did not do any of the children's care while they lived in the home. They observed children and observed how the children acted when they were interacting with them.

[@lila8008]

​@@chetyoubetya8565 it's understood that the scientists lacked empathy. They understood cognitively, but did not respond empathically at all. It seems not all humans are equipped with that ability.

[@lila8008]

@chetyoubetya8565 it's understood that the scientists lacked empathy. They understood cognitively, but did not respond empathically at all. It seems not all humans are equipped with that ability.

[@MissCatherine1100]

That was the most horrifying thing I've seen in a long time.

[@saraj.amann.52.71]

🤔... possibly the reason we had so many serial killers in the 70s & 80s...unnecessary tests on infants.

[@muzinhiphop7591]

Yup

[@timebot000]

Yeah, we babies would have killed Thier spirits if we could have, smh

[@caseymuldoon7125]

This is your opportunity to go down the MKUltra rabbit hole.

[@TwoPinkPeasTerri]

It's truly amazing what love & affection from a mother can do for a child.

[@valeria6751]

Contrary to what some comments say, these children were not separated from their mothers as part of a scientific experiment. At the time, the effects of maternal separation were not know or taken seriously, and children who needed to be hospitalized were isolated to avoid infections. It was not believed that the isolation was harmful and made the children worse. The movie was made to raise awareness to how wrong and harmful these ideas were, so that children would not be separated from their mothers anymore.

[@ruthgoddard6539]

And you know this how!!!! No chrildren we not in hospitals this ling without parents.they were not ill it was scientific test. Inhuman and you defendingvit makes me sick.

[@Skeptigal1]

Valeria, exactly, and thank you. There sure are a lot of hysterical people commenting on these vids.

[@ruthgoddard6539]

@@Skeptigal1 and you know they were not mistreated how??? Were you there.it is obvious whatcis goingvon here at least to normal caring folks

[@juliemama]

@@ruthgoddard6539 It was 70 years ago. Our understanding of child development at that time was very minimal, and these scientists were attempting to learn more.

[@charlottekey8856]

@@ruthgoddard6539 I saw these movies back in high school, late 60s. It was explained by the teacher that the studies were done with good intentions, to raise awareness that children needed good parenting. I guess we don't know how they were treated on a day to day basis. There was more trust of the medical profession in those days, less questioning, so they did not feel the need to explain everything thoroughly.

[@janetstangl248]

I’m thinking there mother’s might have gone to jail! I don’t think it was done for medical reasons!

[@Skeptigal1]

Exactly; they didn't create these conditions, they observed and documented it for research purposes.

[@jessicaellis4223]

Exactly this.

[@DarlaAnne]

@Voracious Reader Good lord, calm down.

[@lori6037]

Voracious Reader And here you are again! You don’t need to read others comments if it pisses you off so much! Everyone, even you can have an opinion and comment it. But you are literally picking on people. I don’t like bullies and that’s why I’m standing up for these people you keep insulting!

[@olivedog1880]

I wanted to cuddle Jane so badly. She broke my heart

[@lasignoraluna2367]

I learned in my study of psychology (25 years ago in Germany) about Spitz et al. and I am deeply impressed that there are films about his studies... thank You very much!

[@gillianschmidt7318]

I can’t have children sadly but how I wish I could of loved one of these babies, Lawrence pulled my heart string. Oh life is not fair😩

[@brownrabbit61]

Looks to me like that they were experimenting with these children. Horrible. I noticed the use of the word "it" instead of he or she. Treated them like objects.

[@learningbuddies915]

They also use the term human wrecks 😡

[@ruthgoddard6539]

Theses kuds got no love during tis ir they would not have reacted this way. God firgive these evil people

[@mirteshappy1]

I hope he took the time to give little Jane a hug too... 😟

[@jdrose1000]

I love the ending! Such beautiful happy faces!

[@andrewkowalski3976]

If you were abandoned as a baby self actualising as an adult can be a very difficult task. Those that do manage to find and fulfill their potential are probably in a very small minority.

[@juliesloan5997]

There is nothing more helpless than a human baby. In the early days of psychology, all sorts of experiments were done on humans that would never be allowed now.

[@wally2786]

Where did their mothers go? This is so painful to watch.

[@fabulousfinds1045]

I thought maybe the moms were impending going to jail or something...I cant comprehend how a mother could take part in such an insidious experiment!

[@nicolemurphy2629]

Fabulous Finds it is disgusting to experiment on children or adults. Needs prohibiting. Who gave consent?

[@fabulousfinds1045]

Absolutely it is!!! My comment is trying to figure some far fetched explanation as to why any disgusting parent or dr would conduct such an experiment!

[@aliciag1287]

These babies probably grew into adults with lots of abandonment issues

[@samiamLatina]

3:59 shes so tense and scared of that face

[@lindasmith9140]

This is the meanest thing to do to a child that dont have their mom just sit and watch them cry and leave them in a crib by their self all day and night to experiment, absolutely heartbreaking!

[@chetyoubetya8565]

They were not the children's caregivers. All these observations were done in care homes with lots of staff. The point of this was explained that even with that children still will not thrive.

[@karate4348]

I endured this and worse...sedation when I got too much for my mum (a nurse, who herself also the result of unwanted pregnancy...a pattern going back how many generations) After my 'sleeps' all i had was to engage as people wanted me to. My nickname in my early teens was 'the antidepressant' which was part of my role from early on. Poor mum, raped in marriage and abortion illegal....so decades of my own mucked up biorythms, hideous insomnia, sad fear of having my old children, numbness around touch, triggered by certain sounds, sights, smells I cannot understand, becoming a super 'independent' woman....and the agony underneath...the bottomless pit...the waiting and needing loving connection with someone who won't just go away is agony. Agony. I honestly wish abortion had been legal for mum. Babies need what they need, from conception...a welcome in the womb, a willing first engagement in the womb....a flowing birth...a welcome to the world of air and light....the breasts and eyes of love. The agony is unbearable...the baby in me was sealed off...made to be good or to sleep. No one helped my mum...or me...or mum to be with me who naturally was distressed but tranquilised to not feel it.

[@erinjay8431]

I wish I could hug you , but I will hug my babies extra long instead.

[@ruthgoddard6539]

She could have given you up

[@AnnaTheodorakis]

karate you are very strong,maybe you should tell your story more often..and I really hope you find love ,its never too late ,never,you deserve it..

[@karate4348]

@@AnnaTheodorakis thank-you

[@coreenaburke5775]

Babies are so much smarter than people give them credit for.

[@hazelthomas6952]

Made me feel sick, hard to watch poor babies

[@joanhall1384]

This makes me sick. How could they do this knowingly causing such anguish. Evil for sure.

[@chetyoubetya8565]

They didn't cause any of this they were scientists who observed infants in the care home that they either were left in by the parents or the state placed them in. They were not there all the time and were not staff.

[@brendalancour9573]

These babies look alot younger then 9 and 10 months old..its so sad.i hope all these babies did grow up to be happy healthy and have productive successful lives.They sure did DESERVE IT after going thru such loneliness sadness and neglect..🤩😍🥰

[@JesusChrististheway1010]

It shows the importance of a mother. It's heartbreaking to see .

[@sarahlewis3455]

I lost my mum earlier this year. The grief I've experienced as an adult who understands what has happened is bad enough. But to lose a mum as a baby, not understanding why she hasn't returned, not knowing who will care for you must be unimaginable.

[@Luvn.Lavender354]

Hell nor high water could have kept me from holding and loving on these babies ❤️❤️❤️🥰

[@christinequint3376]

So very sad.

[@Believer_75]

This is horrifically saddening. I just want to hug these babies.

[@kathleentewksbury3634]

I’m so grateful that I was able to be a stay at home mom. We didn’t have fancy ads or homes but we had what was needed until it was time for school and then I was able to work a part time job.

[@alexpeace4167]

When my son was 1 his dad had to go (he took care of him) my son got sick and got a fever and didn’t want to eat. When his dad returned a year later my son got scared and started crying when he saw him as he awoke.

[@GeographerCBmadam]

Very difficult and painful to watch. I have a son of their age. I can't imagine to leave him for such a long period. I am working mom, when my baby meets after the whole day, he runs and jumps to be cuddled. He is a very cheerful baby, when we enjoy together in our holidays he becomes more cheerful, joyful baby. And thus I understand how grief is important for a baby also.

[@lucyterrier7905]

Many were taken away from neglectful parents and hospitalized for failure to thrive. They actually got these children better while recording their findings.

[@hillarymerce5881]

🤣🤣🤣 i actually don't believe that to be true

[@blossom1643]

They looked pretty healthy to me.

[@coopsevy5664]

I can't imagine. I'm being told I spoil my granddaughter but I feel baby's need contact, love, encouragement, play time, engagement with story time. Flashcards, encouraged to express there thought and feelings and confronted on actions.

[@mylink.orb17]

You cannot 'spoil' a baby! Don't listen to that rubbish. You feel these things for a reason. Listen to your gut. You are doing a great job, Grandma!

[@coopsevy5664]

@@mylink.orb17 Thank you so much for your kind words. I feel happy when I can spoil her with kindness, understanding, education and actions to being a strong and independent woman one day, I love having takes with her about how to treat others and when farness can only be shown when the timing presents it self and an action of acts.. I do love spoiling her with material gifts within a healthy range that shows she isn't getting her own way, and there is a value of limit, and an act of exchange to help others. I kiss and hug her every change I get. And her little toddler fits are valued and welcomed as long as she understands fits don't take solve solutions, fits are time wasted energy.. I hope she will grow up with myself and her mama by her side showing and guiding healthier ways in life that we lacked the knowledge of either receiving the education to a better more healthier minded, physical, and core value on what's really important in life.

[@jasa9186]

😭😭🥺My heart OMGGG please...please...😭😭😭😭😭No baby should EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS...this heartwrenching...😭😔🥺

[@coopsevy5664]

OMG this is heart crushing to me!!!

[@Kira7London-Spencer]

I hope they grew up and sued Spitz and Wolf for all their worth

[@jessicakeaton9278]

I don't feel like those are normal reactions. I wonder if they were leaving the babies alone majority of the time? Were they nurtured and loved on like their mothers would do? So many questions.

[@juliemama]

I think that is exactly the point. They were not at all nurtured and loved on.

[@jodiealdred2350]

Exavtly they was left in a cot Nd most looked terrifed of that dr

[@annamariehewitt3173]

This is absolutely horrific... Were these poor babes not picked up, held, rocked and cuddled regularly? Or were they isolated for an experiment. If that had happened, this would be a completely different film....

[@mangelicalangs2011]

How can they damaged those babies with those nasty experiments

[@sonny2886]

this test was done in order to show that infants need relationships with a constant in their lives of it will have long term effects on the rest of their lives. the attachment and relationships that are developed early on are important for children. They know then that they have someone to go to, they know where their care is coming from, and they can learn about relationships and attachment early on.

[@biancamomot3980]

Thanks 😌 Miss Wynn Unfortunately common sense is clearly lacking after reading the other HYSTERICAL non informed comment s

[@syritasdoneitgoodytwoshoes2471]

In my opinion these Babies seem to take one look at this 'Doctor, recognise him and they look terrified!

[@mylink.orb17]

Exactly what I said

[@cherriberri7161]

I’m sorry I beg to differ about the foundling children it’s very obvious they did “NOT” have enough nourishment

[@meredith2803]

All these precious children just want to wrap them up in cuddles, bless them ❤️

[@kaleahcollins4567]

May gd bless and keep all the then infants now Boomers in their 70's . I hope they all made it I hope they all had good lives

[@meredithadams5495]

🖤💚🖤 love this & agree

[@Kira7London-Spencer]

the baby at 18:10 is emaciated

[@Dovelunalove]

I used to try and hug my mom as a little girl,but she’d always push me away or say stop. I don’t know why. This was very confusing for me. Even now at 25 I can’t look at children without feeling emotional. If I ever have a child I pray to god it always feel my love.