Why Children of Divorce Grow Into Broken Adults - Erica Komisar - #1081

Apr 6, 2026 · 2h 31m · YouTube

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0:00Why do you think your work is seen as controversial?
0:04Well, a number of reasons.
0:06I think some of the things I talk about, even though they're truths, they're inconvenient truths.
0:12You know, my first book was about the importance of attachment security, the first three years, and a mother's presence.
0:19And so I think originally when that book came out, it was perceived as a message, which it really wasn't, which was an anti-feminist message that women shouldn't work.
0:29That wasn't the message of the book at all.
0:33Rather, it was a message about the importance of a mother or primary attachment figure's physical and emotional presence as much as possible in the first three years.
0:43And again, that's a sensitive message in a society that says work, work, work.
0:48Everybody should work, work, work, and no one should raise their own children.
0:51And so I think that's how I originally became controversial.
0:54I think I'm controversial in many ways.
0:56I think my most recent book is controversial in other ways.
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