Postawy macierzyńskie a samotność matek

Abstract

This article covers the topic of maternity attitudes with the special consideration for the formation of mother’s attitudes in case of her isolation. The first part of the article helps to understand three theories about the genesis of maternity attitudes. First of them puts the pressure on the meaning of hormones, second one refers to the meaning of the previous psychical experience of a child acquired in the family it comes from (psychoanalysis) and the third one highlights the meaning of influences of society and culture. The second part of the article shows the stages of formation of maternity attitudes. It mentions G. Makełło-Jarży’s theory, which distinguishes three stages of maternity attitudes’ evolution – the first one is the one from the early childhood to the third one is the one from the delivery to the time when the baby is 3-4 months old. The evolution of maternity attitudes in not always progressive and in a special way it is being disrupted by single motherhood of a woman, which (by the way) can lead to weakness of maternity attitudes and it can even lead to refuse to bring up the child.