The maternal deprivation thesis asserts that children will be inadequately socialized if not raised by their own mother or a female mother substitute, and feminists criticize this theory because of its presumption that: children being socialized by the mother is considered "normal" there is an innate sexual division of labor that presumes socialization emerges from the mother alone maternal instinct is the dominant guiding force in the life of a child the idea that a mother should work outside the home is wrong

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