Parent Infant Attachment

Attachment is a positive, mutual, rewarding relationship between child and parent, or caretaker. It is wonderful bond that give sense of safety and security to children, and for us parents is also rewarding in terms of love that we get back from our young children. Psychologist studied attachments by observation of families in their natural environment and they noticed that parent infant attachment goes through 3 stages. In first stage, infant starts to recognize difference between humans and objects. In second stage child recognize difference between mother and other humans and in third one, infants start to miss his or her mother when mother is absent. Till 1977 was believed that attachment is formed immediately after birth but later on two