Bonding - The Attachment Theory
If parenting is not innate or instinctive how do children benefit from access or contact?
References;
Using Child Development Research to Make Appropriate Custody and Access Decisions for Young Children from Family and Conciliation Courts Review; Los Angeles;Jul 2000; Joan B Kelly; Michael E Lamb; Volume: 38 Issue: 3 : 297-311, Sage Publications. ISSN: 1047569.
Authors
Joan B. Kelly, Ph.D., is a clinical and research psychologist, assistant clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco, and was previously director of the Northern California Mediation Center. She has published extensively in the area of divorce and children's adjustment, custody and access, and custody and divorce mediation.
Michael E. Lamb, Ph.D.. is head of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He has published extensively in the child development literature, with a focus on parent-child relationships, nonparental child care, and forensic interview processes.
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