He wants help, but where do we go for help?" When Morgan, from Bristol, adopted Jon and 14-year-old Steve 10 years ago, she says she was given a parenting course in preparation for adoption, but the issue of attachment was never brought up.
Bruno is driven by an insatiable sexual appetite, while Michel, a scientist, avoids the issue of any attachment whatsoever by focusing his attention on the cloning of human life.
Later, a local court issued a writ of attachment for an unpaid grocery bill.
"Nowhere is this paradox more vivid than in the issues of separation and attachment, attention and distraction, love and limits," Cheever points out in a chapter on -- well, it's hard to say exactly what.
Among many other things, Joanna is a regular contributor in the media on issues of child development, attachment and parenting.
This is the case with Andy Warhol, who was almost never without a glittering entourage and yet whose work is surprisingly eloquent on isolation and problems of attachment, issues he struggled with lifelong.
A natural experiment permitted extensive study of attachment issues as researchers followed thousands of Romanian orphans adopted into Western families after the end of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime.
"In relationships, it's not so much adding more people that's the problem, inasmuch as it's a multiplication of issues, attachment strategies and communication styles.
The aim of this study was to address the issue of teenager's attachment to parent, attachment to peer and coping strategy.
If medication and 12-step programs can provide a better quality of life, then the real issue and underlying fear is of attachment -- the vulnerability of growing close to others and relying on them.
