All human beings are biological and social creatures. Biological processes stimulate children’s physical development; coordination and strength gradually improve, so they can feed themselves and walk. While these biological developments are occurring, children are talked to and handled by caregivers who provide them with food and protect them from physical harm. These social interactions with caregiver are essential for normal development.
In some studies, those infants must have social contact with caregivers as well as physical care from them in order to develop normally. This in institutional children who received adequate physical care like food, cloth, clean bedding, adequate toilet facilities and a lot more. However, did not caregivers who handled and cuddled or talked to them, the children not only lagged behind others of their age in intellectual development but also suffered impaired physical health, apparently because of their lack of social contact. Such studies indicate that we must examine more closely the role of nurture, or socialization, in human development, as well as the role or nature, or biological processes.
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