09-17-2012, 05:02 PM
Yes it is possible and it does happen. Perhaps a lot more than we as a species care to admit.
My very own mother had/has no maternal instincts. For her the process of having babies was to 'hook' a man, and then later on as an excuse to keep the marriage going. There were other reasons, not because she loved her kids or actually wanted children.
She showed absolutely none of the traits one would expect of motherhood.
In my mother's case she didn't fully mature - somewhere around age 13 she stopped growing emotionally. Other side effects are extreme selfishness, 'using' people (even abusing them) in order to get her way/what she wants.
If you open up a psychiatric book 'sociopath' pretty much fits her to a 't'.
My very own mother had/has no maternal instincts. For her the process of having babies was to 'hook' a man, and then later on as an excuse to keep the marriage going. There were other reasons, not because she loved her kids or actually wanted children.
She showed absolutely none of the traits one would expect of motherhood.
In my mother's case she didn't fully mature - somewhere around age 13 she stopped growing emotionally. Other side effects are extreme selfishness, 'using' people (even abusing them) in order to get her way/what she wants.
If you open up a psychiatric book 'sociopath' pretty much fits her to a 't'.