The most basic question about child development is how nature and nurture together shape development. Nature refers to our biological endowment, the genes we receive from our parents. Nurture refers to the environments, social as well as physical, that influence our development, everything from the womb in which we develop before birth to the homes in which we grow up, the schools we attend, and the many people with whom we interact.
this reminds me of harry harlows monkey experiment where the monkeys had a wired mother that would give them the food they needed but no comfort and then they had a cloth covered plush? that was warm and soft and gave them some comfort. the monkeys ended up prefering the cloth covered plush over the wired mother that gave them milk. I believe some of the monkeys were in emotional distress because of the lack of nuturing