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Peer reviewedCowan, Philip A. – Child Development, 1997
Argues that although meta-analysis makes an important contribution to summarizing attachment studies, it limits the conceptual understanding to simple causal models and ignores family systems models that could illuminate the development of secure and insecure attachment. Maintains that fathers' role in attachment and the impact of the quality of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Family (Sociological Unit), Fathers, Infants
