Home Attachment Analysis

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Do long periods of time spent in a childcare facility have any negative effects on children? For centuries working families have sent their children to daycare. There has always been the dilemma of rather or not daycare is good or bad on the development of a child. For this paper, I will focus on the negative effects of daycare on children and parent’s attachment such as lower social skills, and greater risk for depression and anxiety.
For working families, daycare is rarely optional, these families have to send their children to child care facilities so that they are able to fulfil their parental duties such as providing for their child financially. Of course these parents would enjoy staying at home with their children and spending time with them, but that is not always an
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Berk, 2013, pg. 428). Abandonment is what many critiques refer to daycare as. Parents usually drop their children around 8am and return to pick them up around 5pm or later. In many homes, by the time the parent has gotten off work, he or she is exhausted and is unable to fully interact with their child. This causes the child and parent to have an avoidant attachment.
According to Berk, 2013, Avoidant attachment is defined as the child seeming unresponsive to the parent when he or she is present. When he/ she leaves they usually are not distressed, and they react to the stranger in much the same way as the parent. During reunion, they avoid or are slow to greet the parent, and when picked up, they often fail to cling. Avoidant attachment types are extremely independent, self-directed, and often uncomfortable with intimacy (Mark 2011).
Once you and your child have developed a avoidant attachment relationship, there are several ways the renew the