Those with natural empathy intact, who are fully responsive, whose ability to respond is intact, need no rules, nor do they require any regulation. Empathy is the ability to discern the CONTENT of the other. It is built on self empathy. Self empathy is to a large degree developed through the child-mother bonding process, in that it is the environment that the new born grows in that is most crucial to her or his development. Environment means the psychological, emotional, material realities into which the child is born. In utero, the child is in a fully empathic reality, connected to her or his mother in profound ways. They are as one. The child in utero is sensing not only her own world, but that of the mother as well. The evidenc...