Rethinking Attachment for Early Childhood Practice: Promoting Security, Autonomy and Resilience in Young Children. Routelege.

Must cite Goldberg, S. (2013). Attachment and Development: Texts in Developmental Psychology. Routledge.

Rolfe, S. A. (2004). Rethinking Attachment for Early Childhood Practice: Promoting Security, Autonomy and Resilience in Young Children. Routelege.

These questions draw fromGoldberg’s Chapters 6 & 7 and Rolfe’s Chapter 12.

According to Bowlby’s and Ainsworth’s theoretical and empirical[research] work, infants come into the world predisposed to attach primarily to oneperson only, usually the mother, or major caregiver; all other attachments are secondary. This, as youknow, has been questioned by research, (i.e., Michael Lamb), and by culturalgroups in which the responsibility for child care is shared by more than onecaregiver.

What do you think about this issue? Do infants have only one primary attachmentrelationship?  Do they then form a “hierarchy of attachment”with other secondary attachment figures?  Or, can an infant have two or more primaryattachment figures? 

Make sure your comments are not “opinions” but informed opinions. In other words, use information from the readings or other reliable sources tosupport your statements. (150 word response)