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How does attachment relate to child care?
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How does attachment relate to child care? In order to answer this question, the first thing to investigate is attachment and how important it is to young children. There has been much conflicting research into this subject. The work of Lorenz, Bowlby, Rutter, and Ainsworth will be discussed. Also the work of Belsky, Clark-Stewart, and Melhuish et al. It is also important to know the difference between deprivation and privation. Deprivation is when something you have had is taken away, and privation is when you have never had something in the first place. One of the first theories about how attachments happen was put forwards by Lorenz, as a result of his observations of animal behaviour. Lorenz adopted a method of study known as ethology which is the study of behaviour in its natural environment. Ethological studies are special ways of carrying out observations of behaviour. Lorenz was particularly interested...
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