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This essay will discuss the influence of parent-infant attachment on the optimal development of a child and particularly how poor parenting techniques can affect and influence a child's growth to optimal development. This paper will specifically focus on journal articles research into psychosocial and emotional stages of children and will correlate poor parent-infant attachment to lack of achievement of milestones of development in children across subsequent developmental ages. This paper will also address strategies for parents to ensure good parent-infant attachment is achievable for all caregivers. The subject of parent-infant attachment has been well studied since the original theory was first put forward by John Bowlby in 1951 (Bowlby, cited in Owusu-Bempah and Howitt, 1997) and there has been much research and study into parent-infant attachment during the subsequent years. Theiss and Travers (2006) point out that the development of attachment relationships in children and human beings appears to...

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