Describe social competence of newborns and its effects on the parent-child relationship. How the development of this relationship may be affected when the child is born with important medical issues, or if either parents has a medical or psychological issue (e.g., the mother of postpartum depression or father who is blind).

Developmental Researchers no longer view the neonate as a helpless creature, but as an extraordinarily competent, developing human being. What do you think are the repercussions of this changing viewpoint for techniques of child rearing and child care?