Goat_Shepard wrote...
Thanks Mass, I reaaaally needed that.
Rip, welcome.
NuclearBuddha wrote...
I'm sure that visual contact and and interaction substitutes to a certain extent. But it's much easier to calm an infant with direct contact.
As for how messed up an infant can get without proper stimulus/interaction? Well, experimenting with humans would be unethical, but here's the famous study with monkeys. It starts getting horrific in the "isolation" part.
Indeed. This one wonders why quarians are not mentally unstable and failures at life in general. They are the opposite, it seems, they adapt.
Wait, I thought they didn't use bubbles on infants. Tali (or Shala, I forget) said it was the intermediary step between nursing and getting a suit at adolescence. Maybe -
hopefully- Quarians probably get all that skin-to-skin contact in before the bubble.
Bubbles, I guess, would be the first step in quarian kindergarten or something. Hey, here's a challenge: picture Tali in kindergarten and try not to d'awww.