Understanding How Parental Caregiving Influences the Child’s Attachment in Adoptive and Biological Relationships
A review of 32 studies and an empirical study of eight parent–child pairs, including five adoptive pairs with children aged five to eight, examined caregiving and child attachment. Child attachment tasks, observation and parent interviews were interpreted using different attachment frameworks, producing differing accounts of defensive behaviour and possible change.
Limitations: Only five adoptive pairs were studied empirically. Framework-dependent interpretations are not population estimates or proof of caregiving effects. Parents supplied some evidence, while children completed assessment tasks. The abstract does not establish empirical recruitment region; the review covers wider literature.
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- Doctoral thesis
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- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
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- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
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Topics: attachment, Child development, Parent proxy evidence, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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