A child’s autonomy depends on parental love given without reciprocation
Evidence
The mother may go so far as to share the child’s intentions, but the child might not share hers. It is this kind of relationship that allows the child to develop at all in the account in chapter 5. In the end the child’s independence or autonomy as a person may depend on the parents’ capacity to love and give without commensurate reciprocation. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 658
Categorization
- XREF: Asymmetric trust — one party almost completely trustworthy, the other almost completely trusting — parallels the doctor’s wife in Saramago who gives without commensurate reciprocation, functioning as the sole guarantor of order. — connects to: Lack of love in early childhood causes lifelong affective insecurity — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 278; Inauthentic love lets the beloved ratify one’s infantile fantasies instead of moving beyond them; Infant attachment to caregivers forms the foundation for later self-concept and identity development. — Forming Attachments (+6 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 658
Broader Connections
- Inauthentic love lets the beloved ratify one’s infantile fantasies instead of moving beyond them
#qualifies(0.80) - Lack of love in early childhood causes lifelong affective insecurity
#expands(0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 278 - Authentic love requires the beloved to help one go beyond infantile fantasies
#corroborates(0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 164 - Caring parents still hold divergent reproductive interests
#qualifies(0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 373