Challenges to the development of attachment relationships faced by young children in foster and adoptive care.

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ATTACHMENT THEORY AND RESEARCH: OVERVIEW WITH SUGGESTED APPLICATIONS TO CHILD CUSTODY (2011, background): “…misconception is probably (inaccurately) derived from orphanage studies, which show that if no attachment has been formed to any person during these years, the capacity for attachment formation may be permanently compromised (e.g., Bowlby, 1969/1982; Dozier & Rutter, 2008; Goldfarb, 1943, 1945)24.”
Moving Toward a Secure Attachment Style: Can Repeated Security Priming Help? (2008, background): “The attachment between an infant and its mother, for example, is not usually measured until the infant is 12 months of age, and in cases where a child is adopted or enters foster care, changes in the child’s attachment pattern, predictable from the new mother’s Adult Attachment Interview (Hesse, 199”