I think that Attachment creates positive role models in a child's life. If a child has someone to look up to, then that child has something that they must strive for in order to become a "successful" person. Not necessarily in wealth, but in terms of being a human being. If a person has someone who cares about them, and that they are attached to, then that child will want to emulate that person. They will want to love, just like they were loved. That creates success in life.
What about other influences? What if the child is still loved by that person, but has a negative relationship with someone else? In that case, I don't think that success is gauranteed because the child is exposed to negative and postive relationships. The child will not develop a set of rules on how relatioinships work or are supposed to work if the child only has positive influences.
--Maribel
-- Edited by 102intro on Wednesday 4th of November 2009 10:12:28 AM
I defiantly think that that is part of it. Positive role models, and somewhat more basically, an environment in which to grow up with positive reinforcement, leads to successful and comfortable adults. Through attachment the child not only learns how to go about life, but has coaches for encouragement and critics throughout.
At this age, children aren't going to be able to comprehend the complexities that make up even the smallest of arguments between adults. Saying that having negative influences at this stage of development for the sole purpose of discerning how the working world works isn't something that is in the capabilities of an infant.
The more positive attachments the baby has when it's younger, the more open and secure it will feel in most of its future settings.
