For anyone with an opinion on raising kids?

Personally, I think it will make him more stnd-offish and aloof in his relationships with women. He'll tend to be more closed off and less open to revealing his emotions and thoughts. It will be harder for him to open up and trust a woman, to share his deeper 'self'. He won't know how to trust and share with her, as he never got that experience as a child and thus doesn't know how to do it as an adult.

I think closed off. I am a single mother to a little boy and I snuggle, watch movies and tell him I love him many times a day. If you keep your child at a distance then what good does that do? All it will teach him is he cannot count on you for affection.

All children need snuggles in my opinion boy or girl, my mother was not a loving mother and we never cuddled, but me as an adult now love to cuddle, Friends family etc it all depends on the child, but in my opinion al children should feel they are loved with cuddles, kisses and being told they are loved!

Closed off and less loving. Any child in any situation that doesn't get warm fuzzies, and closeness, hugs and kisses, and positive reinforcement, will grow up to be stand offish.

doesn't matter if it is a son and mother, daughter and mother, father and son or father a daughter, doesn't matter if it is a single parent family or two parent family. if a person doesn't grow up with affection, doesn't get told "I LOVE YOU" etc etc, then they will most likely not knw how to show it to anyone else, they will most likely be closed off and uncomfortable with feeling and emotion.

have a kid too loving mothers like you know how to handle them in years to come you will be rewarded