One could argue that the parents that form secure attachments with their children are more likely to be attractive friends capable of maintaining healthy relationships than those parents who may not form this bond with their child. We've learned that children imitate the behaviors they see in adults. Perhaps the children with secure attachments simply learn how to be more socially successful by observing their parents. This would suggest that it's not the actual childhood attachment that causes the correlation between attachment style and well-being later in life.
