An alternative explanation could be the family that a child grows up in. A child with a single parent or a loss family member i.e. brother/sister could play a huge role. There could be secure attachment to the mother, but a loss of a family may play a huge role in how a person interacts with others, potentially being more careful in how they approach other people. So I guess what I'm saying is that if a person grows up with only a single mother, they may have trouble talking to older male figures, like their coach or teacher, if they see them as how their father might have been like.
This is a cool idea. I agree and it would make sense that if a child did not grow up with a dominant male figure in his or her life, he or she might have a hard time forming relationships with men. Maybe the child would even feel a need for a male figure in his or her life and therefore form an anxious/resistant like attachment to any men that enter his or her life?
This is an interesting idea. I could see that a child can have problems relating to certain groups of people if they did not have a certain figure in their early development.
