The Movie ' Babies '

The attachment theory is a theory proposed by John Bowlby. The theory basically states that infants need to be attached to someone in order to have successful relationships as they grow older. Bowlby says, “Attachment is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another across time and space”

Attachment is an emotional bond that is created between one person to another across a life span. Attachment can be a connection between two individuals, but it is a bond that involves a regular contact with that person and also expressed distress when separated from that person. Also, attachment can play an important role during childhood, adolescent and romantic relationships. Attachment tends to be enduring and meaningful because it can last for a long time between people. However, being attached can motivate children to stay close to people that they love. Attachment can also help people build emotional bond between each others, that can have a secure base so that people can safely explore their environment. Although studies have shown that children who are securely attached can also develop an increase of independence and confidence. Meanwhile, children who are not securely attached can develop risks such as poor internal working models in life.

Attachment, according to Emde (1982) is a deep and enduring emotional bond that connects one person to another, across time and space. John Bowlby, and Evolutionist, believed that attachment was pre-programmed. In order for us to survive as a species, we needed to attach to a significant other; that its innate in us to single out a few specific individuals around us and attach to them, an so providing a survival advantage. Bowlby rationalised that the attachment between a mother and infant was unlike any other bond; very unlike the bond an infant would develop with another human. He coined it ‘Monotrophy’.

Attachment theory emphasizes the importance of parent’s capability to offer a secure base for their children to discover the world ( Kottler & Shepard 2015). My own attachment style is a secure attachment style; secure attachment style refers to the idea that infants who couldn’t count on their mother being consistently available would cry when their mother left their sight but quickly calm down when their mother came back and pick them up ( Kottler & Shepard 2015).

By definition, “attachment is the emotional bond between an infant and the primary caregiver (Romero; Perry).” During the first eight months of life, an infant will typically form an emotional attachment to a caregiver. The kind of attachment is based on the nurture and care the infant receives. The type of attachment between an infant and a caregiver can help determine the child’s personality and development (Romero).

The movie first takes place in 1987 with Dr. Ben Carson traveling to Germany to meet Mr. and Mrs. Rausch, who have twins who are conjoined at the back of their heads. He examines the babies, and explains to the parents that is a complicated surgery because past surgeries related to their case one or both twins die because of the loss of blood. After seeing the difficulties, the surgery will have, he commented a positive point that the twins were not sharing any other crucial organs; which gave hope to the parents. Even if Dr. Carson knows the outcomes, he hesitantly accepts to do the surgery and find a way to not risk the life of the babies. During his investigation, he starts to have flashbacks of himself growing up. These flashbacks present

Attachment Theory, made known by John Bowlby, is a theory dissecting the behaviourisms of humans and animals with others and the reasoning behind them. Bowlby created three main types of attachment one may experience with another. The first type of attachment is secure attachment. This attachment entails that the mother and the child have a healthy emotional bond. For this to happen, the mother and or father comfort the baby by means of “bodily centric and verbal communication” (Boyd, 2013).

What is attachment means to a human being? Attachment is a connection that a person creates with another person. It is formed during infancy with their primary caregivers. An attachment was something essential for the survival of early humans because it meant having a secure attachment with other members of their community would provide them with a better opportunity of gathering food for survival. In today’s world attachment is essential to understand, but it is not just for survival, but also to have a better understanding of the people’s problems and to find solutions to help them with building secure relationships with others. Attachment styles of infants with their

Attachment theory, developed by John Bowlby, Attachment is defined as the formation of a psychological and emotional relationship between an infant and its primary caregiver. It’s also a pattern of relational style that the child learns from the adults and caregivers whom play the largest role in the child’s life. That pattern is learned in early childhood and thought to repeat itself throughout an individual’s life, in both their social and romantic relationships.

Myers (2014) explains that attachment is the bond between a child and a caregiver: it can be secure or insecure. In order to foster attachment there needs to be not only nourishment, but comfort and familiarity with the caregiver. When children are insecurely attached they are less likely to explore their environment freely. Securely attached children have very attentive mothers who respond well to their needs. Inattentive mothers tend to foster insecure attachment in their children by not attending well to their needs. Our genes also help to form our personality, but programs used to train parents to be sensitive to their child 's needs can slightly affect attachment in infants. Children can suffer from health issues, psychological problems, and even have lowered IQ because of deprivation of attachment (Karen, 1994).

Attachment is love and affection. Mary Ainsworth (1989) defines attachment as an enduring emotional bond between one animal or person and another (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 99). According to John Bowlby, attachment is essential to the survival of the infant (Bowlby, 1988). He notes that the newborns are born with behaviors such as crying, smiling, clinging that encourages caregiving from adults (Rathus & Longmuir, 2015, p. 99).

Based on this theory, attachment relationships are emotional bonds between individuals that serve a biological function, particularly for infants and young children (Hardy & Bellamy, 2013). These relationships protect infants and young children during a period when they are too small to protect themselves by keeping them in proximity to their caregivers. Since infants and young children develop an emotional bond to attachment figures who constantly offer care and comfort, they experience less stress levels and a high sense of calm and safety. The basis of attachment theory is the need for infants to feel safe and secure because of their inability to care for and protect themselves.

The movie, Babies, is a film that notes the lives of four different babies during the first year of their lives. The first baby, Ponijao, from an area near Opuwo, Namibia, lives with her mother and seven older siblings. The second baby, Bayar, from Bayanchandmani, Mongolia, lives with his parents and older brother. Mari, a baby from Tokyo, Japan, lives with her parents. The fourth baby, Hattie, lives with her parents in San Francisco, United States. The film discusses the aspects of culture and environment with the universal aspects of development as an infant. Through this, we see how occupations of the parents and babies compare in various parts of the world.

Literature has proven the importance of attachment in the early years but Brumari (2015) relegated the most important time for attachment is in the middle childhood where the child is becoming more independent at this time it is more about the availability than proximity of the attachment figure. The attachment figure instead of being the provider becomes the counsellor the role model and since the child has developed confidence in the person trust their advice. just like in Erikson’s theory(Saarni,2011) if the child has love, trust and security they move to the next stage of emotional development which sees them confident and in control of their environment.. The child looks up to the attachment figure for emotional guidance on how to deal

Developing a healthy attachment always was important to me. I Felt being a nourishing father was a God giving quality, and I was proud to be caring, and funny, these virtues forester the key ingredients to a successful human being. The Modeling and Attachment Theory help me do that in so much