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Lovelessness and guiltlessness are fundamental traits of psychopathy.

Common signs of psychopathy are confusion and bad feeling.

Psychopaths often set one person against another, and though suspicion is rife, the cause is never rooted out.

When my children were young, I remember reading aloud children’s books that delighted both them and me. One book that especially comes to mind is Diane Goode’s Where’s Our Mama? 1 The author dedicated this book to her own mother, and her feelings for her mother are expressed through the two young children in the story. In the story, a gust of wind blew the mother’s hat off her head. When the mother went to fetch her hat, the two children became separated from her and began to cry. A policeman approached them as they searched for their mama and asked them to describe her. They quickly said she was the most beautiful and bravest person who always wears the prettiest hats, has a voice that everyone loves, and is the best cook in the world. Of course, they were all soon joyfully reunited.

As in the story, “mama” elicits an image of a loving, giving, selfless person. But some people never had such a mother. Many were born the children of psychopathic mothers. For those in such circumstances, what can they expect?

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