Attachment In Young Adults

Attachment is extremely important to experience at a young age in order to understand how to bond with people and create healthy relationships as an adult. The ability to create and maintain healthy bonds with people is important, not only in personal relationships, but in professional relationships as well. Learning from infancy how to create these bonds is a critical way to start a child on a healthy, happy, and successful path rather than a path of emotional distance and, in many cases, crime. Families and caregivers are the basis for preventing criminality in a person’s life as well as creating a pathway towards a successful life. During infancy, we learn mostly from our parents and other people who care for us. We create an attachment
Having a child is extremely expensive and requires a massive amount of time, however, currently in the United States parents are only granted a three month, and most of the time unpaid, maternity leave. My first thought on this issue is that newborns require mass amounts of attention and I do not believe that three months is a long enough time span to give a newborn child all of the attention that they require. Secondly, most families cannot afford to take an entire three months without pay and therefore are forced to return to work much earlier than the three months that they are given for maternity leave. They are forced to leave their children either with a family member, a hired babysitter, or in day care rather than be there to form the intimacy that parents should have with their children. This creates the issue of delinquency because these children were not given the attention that they so desperately needed to form strong social bonds. Considering the fact that research has proven that children who have healthy attachments are more likely to succeed, it is my personal belief that if these families could receive help from the government during maternity leave crime in the US would lesson. Help from the government would allow these children; who would normally not receive the attention that is so vital to their development; would receive that attention allowing them to develop stable and strong relationships, giving them a much higher chance at having a successful life. All in all, I believe that the way things are in the US currently makes it difficult for many families to create the intimacy that parents should have with their children in order to set them on a path to a successful