When a child reaches the age of around eight to (1)
, for the first time in his life the idea of love is changed from
being loved into loving. As he grows into a (n) (2)
eventually, he has overcome his (3) . For him now,
to give has become more satisfactory and more joyous than to (4)
; to love has become more important even than being loved.
Related to this change is the development of the (5) of
love. When a child grows UP, his (6) to mother gradually
(7) some of its vital significance and his relationship to
(8) becomes more and more important. There are
essential (9) in quality between motherly love and fatherly
love. Motherly love is by nature (10) . Mother loves a child
not because the child has (11) any specific condition, or has
lived up to any specific (12) . But the
(13) to father is quite different. Father does not represent
the (14) world. He represents the world of thought, of
(15) and order, of discipline, and of travel and (16)
. Father is the one who shows the child into the (17)
. Fatherly love is (18) love. Its
principle is "I love you because you fulfill my expectations, because you do
your duty. " Fatherly love has a negative and a (19) aspect.
The negative aspect is that fatherly love can be (20) if the
child does not do what is expected of him.