

Hugs and Kisses
Affective touch is essential to healthy human development. There have been numerous studies on the effects on young children and non-human primates who grew up without a healthy amount of affective touch. Affective touch has different definitions for different people and varies between cultures and species.In general caressing touch is an effective way to communicate emotions and to create social bonds. It is also one of the key mediators of early parental bonding. "One stu