This is a publication from Early Childhood in Focus, by the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University. There are three sections to the article:
1. Attachment relationships: Infants and Caregivers: The documents begins by looking at attachment, security, mothers and fathers, multiple attachments, cultural contexts, and childcare issues.
2. Influences on attachment relationships: This section addresses caregiving, adult-child interactions, promoting secure attachment, fathers, mothering, and the influence of money on health and development.
3. Infant attachment and developmental outcomes: The last segment explores parenting quality and children's problems, separation, later outcomes, attachment disorganization, adult attachment, and generational patterns.
Each area also considers policy matters. The various topics are based on attachments theories, specifically theoriest John Bowlby.
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