Such children are not likely to view caregivers as being a source of safety, and instead typically show an increase in aggressive and hyperactive behaviors which may disrupt healthy or secure attachment with their adopted parents.

Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a condition found in children who have received grossly negligent care and do not form a healthy emotional attachment with their primary caregivers - usually their mothers - before age 5.

The answer is that there are programs that do work to help young and stressed mothers establish healthier attachments.

Secure attachment is a healthy attachment between the infant and the caregiver.

Pathological narcissism can develop from an impairment in the quality of the person's relationship with their primary caregivers, usually their parents, in that the parents could not form a healthy and empathic attachment to them.

A developing child requires proper nutrition, protection, and regulation for healthy attachment.

Although an attachment is a "tie" it is not synonymous with love and affection although they often go together and a healthy attachment is considered to be an important foundation of all subsequent relationships.

It is also evidence of your child's healthy attachment to you.

Separation can damage a healthy attachment and a child's sense of safety.

This differed from "socialized" individuals, who were able to form healthy social attachments to others, and whose aggressive and antisocial acts typically derived from engagement in a deviant social group (e.g. youth gangs).