John Bowlby's View Of Attachment

In the development through the lifespan textbook, Feldman mentions that the most important part of a child's life is attachment. It all starts when an infant at the end of the first year develops stranger and separation anxiety (Feldman, 2007). When children are around their parents and other caregivers, they feel safe at all times. When a child is around someone who is a stranger and not their caregiver, they're more likely to experience fear. According to John Bowlby's view of attachment, attachment is needed for children to feel safe and secure around their parents. Bowlby also goes on to mention that "attachment provides a type of home base" (Feldman, p.186, 2017). Psychologist Mary Ainsworth identified four attachment styles including parenting which were the secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and the disorganized-disoriented attachment pattern. In the secure attachment, children use their parents mostly the mother as a home base and may get upset when she leaves. In the avoidant attachment, children do not seek out their mothers when she is gone and when the mother comes back the child ignores her. In the ambivalent attachment, children who are with their
Authoritarian parents are more likely to be cruel and controlling and can be very strict which can leave children to become unattached from their parents. Permissive parents are rarely knowing for showing little responsibility for their kids which can also lead children to become unattached from there parents. Children with authoritative parents are more likely to become attachment to their parents but even though they're loving and caring, they tend to be strict at times. Children with uninvolved parents will have no attachment at all with parents because parents are more likely to show no interest in their children and may even neglect their kids as