When a child reaches the age of around eight to
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, for the first time in his life the idea of love is changed from being loved into loving. As he grows into a (n)
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eventually, he has overcome his
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. For him now, to give has become more satisfactory and more joyous than to
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; to love has become more important even than being loved.
Related to this change is the development of the
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of love. When a child grows UP, his
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to mother gradually
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some of its vital significance and his relationship to
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becomes more and more important.
There are essential
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in quality between motherly love and fatherly love. Motherly love is by nature
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. Mother loves a child not because the child has
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any specific condition, or has lived up to any specific
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.
But the
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to father is quite different. Father does not represent the
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world. He represents the world of thought, of
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and order, of discipline, and of travel and
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. Father is the one who shows the child into the
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.
Fatherly love is
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love. Its principle is "I love you because you fulfill my expectations, because you do your duty. " Fatherly love has a negative and a
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aspect. The negative aspect is that fatherly love can be
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if the child does not do what is expected of him.