cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that there have been strong feelings of bitterness, betrayal, anger and distress between the father and mother, where each party felt they were 'right' in many of their views on issues which led to their separation.
cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that there have been strong feelings of bitterness, betrayal, anger and distress between the father and mother, where each party felt they were 'right' in many of their views on issues which led to their separation.
"The intensity of negative feeling of the appellant towards the respondent would have obvious effect on the psyche of girl child, who has remained in the company of her father, to the exclusion of her mother.
"The possibility of appellant's (father's) effort to get the child to give up her own positive perceptions of the other parent, i.e. the mother, and change her to agree with the appellant's view point cannot be ruled out, thereby diminishing the affection of child towards her mother," it said.
The apex court, which listed the matter for March 2018, was hearing a petition filed by the father, challenging the High Court order granting the girl's custody to the mother.
The couple had married in 2007 and the girl was born the next year.
Soon after the marriage, differences surfaced in their matrimonial life and in 2010, after the events took ugly turn the woman was forced to leave the matrimonial house with father keeping the child.
Dealing with the psychological aspects of the case, the apex court said "empirical studies show that mother infant bonding begins at the child's birth and that infants as young as two months old frequently show signs of distress when the mother is replaced by a substitute caregiver.
"An infant typically responds preferentially to the sound of its mother's voice by four weeks, actively demands her presence and protests her absence by eight months, and within the first year has formed a profound and enduring attachment to her.
"Psychological theory hypothesises that the mother is the centre of an infant's small world, her psychological homebase, and that she must continue to be so for some years to come", the bench said.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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