| Autor: |
Benjamin D. Garber |
| Rok vydání: |
2012 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Family Court Review. 50:467-470 |
| ISSN: |
1531-2445 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01461.x |
| Popis: |
Family Court Review has provided the family law community with an invaluable compilation of articles in the form of interviews with some of the world's most highly respected experts on attachment theory. These articles provide insight into the young child's experience of early relatedness and sound direction for those providing services to most families. This article suggests, however, that attachment theory's great wealth of empirical data may have limited validity when applied to high-conflict, recidivist-litigant, custody-contending families. In particular, the recommendation that young children benefit from the near-exclusive care of their mother throughout their first 2 or 3 years and can thereafter build a relationship with their father on the strength of their mother's endorsement ignores the frank reality of these children's lives. Acknowledging the painful realities of children thus caught in the middle, we must instead perform the delicate balancing act of providing children with a developmentally appropriate opportunity to build a secure attachment with each of their parents from birth forward. This position is framed within an evolutionary and developmental perspective. Key Points for the Family Court Community: •The quality of a child's attachment relationship with Parent A is built both upon his/her direct experience of Parent A's sensitive and responsive care and upon his/her experience of Parent B's endorsement of parent A as a sensitive and responsive caregiver. •The attachment research suggests that most children will benefit from a primary relationship with their mother from birth through the 2nd or 3rd year and may thereafter build a relationship with their father on the basis of their mother's endorsement. •The mutual disregard and acrimony characteristic of the high-conflict divorce population makes it exceedingly unlikely that a mother granted near-exclusive care of her infant will thereafter be willing or able to genuinely endorse the father so as to lay the foundation for the child's secure attachment with him. •Very young children of high-conflict parents may have the best opportunity to make and maintain a healthy relationship with both of their parents when they have frequent, developmentally informed, and carefully structured contact with both from their earliest days. |
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