Born for Love
Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered

"Will increasing empathy solve all the world's problems? Of course not. But few of them can be solved without it." And so ends Born for Love by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz, a book about the nature of empathy and its importance in modern society. The authors examine the development of empathy in ba......more

5- This is an important and well-written book. It's easy to read, although sad and poignant at times. I recommend it for anyone who has children in their life and wants to improve our collective future.......more

I didn't find "Born for Love" as tightly written as the authors' other effort "The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog"; there was a fair amount of repeated material within the book. Still, I enjoyed the book & there were many fascinating tidbits. The overall message is that relationships matter, love matte......more

This book approached the issue of empathy from all sorts of angles: developmental psychology, sociology, history, etc. I thought the case studies the authors used to show how empathy develops (or doesn't) in children were particularly useful, and they also connected lack of empathy to economic inequ......more

There is a LOT of GREAT stuff in the book. But it’s a little dated as it was written in 2009, and grounded in psychology (as opposed to neuroscience as is the case with Dr. Perry’s other books), and as such I was (personally) a little board and underwhelmed despite the ABSOLUTELY life affirming messa......more