refrigerator mother

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Meaning: (psychology,dated,idiomatic,derogatory)Anemotionallyfrigidmother, who does not exhibit normalcareorlovefor her child or children.1979April 7, Helen Kohl, “The Strange Ones" Autismcanbe brought into our world”, inMontreal Gazette, Canada, retrieved18 November 2012:It was not until 1943 that Dr. Leo Kanner, an American pschiatrist, first diagnosed the syndrome in 11 children. . . . Kanner and others once postulated that these children were the products of "refrigerator mothers," women who are overly cold and intellectual.2010, John W. Oller Jr, Stephen D. Oller,Autism: The Diagnosis, Treatment, & Etiology of the Undeniable Epidemic,→ISBN,page49:No present-day researcher takes the idea of therefrigerator motheras the cause of autism seriously.

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