Contra-evolution of Mother-Child Relationship

This blog is devoted to evolutionary relationships which are not forced on the people through circumstances. A mother-child relationship is thus not an evolutionary relationship but there also some thing evolves, it may be called counter-evolution of the relationship wherein the mother-child relationship often gets loosened with passage of time. 

In animals, mother and child ofyen get isolated after the child becomes self-dependent for getting its feed. They often do not even recognize each other after such an isolation. This indicates that a mother-child relationship is naturally made for upbringing the child to be self-dependent. After that the relationship gets dissolved to the extent that there may evolve a wife-husband relationship between a mother and her child.  . 

In human societies, the mother-child relationship continues not for natural needs of it but for  another reson. The reason is socio-intellectual. The mother and the child remember their relationship for the whole of their lives and try to keep the social sanctity thereof. Were the memory of human race not that long-lasting, and there were no social norms of a son establishing a sexual relationship with his mother, they would have gone the animal way. 

This, however, does not mean that the mother-child relationship is kept intact for the whole life span. There have been cases when a son has killed his mother. But this is not a normal thing for humanity and so is considered as a criminal act.

After the child gets self-dependent for his feeds, or no more needs the mother's help for this purpose, it is the child which gets independent of the mother, rather than the mother herself. Reason for this seems to be that the child, as he grows up, develops many needs for a happy and comfortable living for which he needs no help from the mother which he needed while young. Conversely, the mother had no selfish ends while bringing up the child and her situation remains unchanged with respect to the child with the passage of time. So mother tends to keep the relationship while the child may ignore it.                 .