Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. She is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son. She is teaching him ingratitude, and preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him.