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Definition: The ability of a child to form significant and stable emotional connections with other people, beginning in early infancy with one or more primary caretakers. Failure to establish such connections before the age of five may result in difficulties with social relationships as severe as reactive attachment disorder.

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Sources of information, guidance, and treatments for attachment problems, for present and future adoptive parents.

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Source/Adapted from: National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

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