The process of becoming a parent is accompanied by myriad psychological and biological
changes. This entry reviews two psychological phenomena that drive the formation of the …

Objectives The parent-infant relationship begins during pregnancy and is foundational to the
caregiving system that will guide early parenting behaviors. The current study extends prior …

For almost three decades, there has been special interest in the bond between parents and
their infants in the hope that better understanding of this relationship could result in …

Although it has long been acknowledged that children benefit from a strong bond with their
parents, the precise ways bonding helps the child–through improved brain development and …

John Bowlby's experiences with institutionalized orphans, severely deprived of maternal
care, convinced him that prevailing theories were inadequate to explain the developmental …

The aim of this dissertation was to further explore mechanisms of mother-to-infant bonding
and to evaluate associations between mother-to-infant bonding and socio-emotional child …

The topic of the infant's emotional tie to mother has been a focus of theorizing for hundreds if
not thousands of years. Freud, however, is probably responsible for modern scientific …

Although there is considerable support for the influence of maternal attachment on children's
development (see Gerhardt, 2015), this is one of the first studies to examine the effects of …

The present study examined the longitudinal associations among supportive coparenting
and father engagement during infancy and mother-child attachment at age three within an at …

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to attachment parenting When it comes to early parenting, scientific evidence points time …