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The belief that child-parent attachment plays an important role in social development occupies center stage in most contemporary theories of childhood socialization. The origins of this belief are easily traceable to Freud’s emphasis on the significance of infant-mother attachment for virtually all aspects of subsequent personality development. Its endurance over the intervening decades has been sustained by a wealth of empirical data linking attachment to a wide range of socialization outcomes in both childhood and adulthood (Waters, Hay, & Richters, 1986).
When one considers values in general and moral values in particular from a cognitive standpoint, one is faced with the same problem. Cognition does not offer the principle of determination, of preference, of value. (Loevinger, 1976, p. 43)
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Richters, J.E., Waters, E. (1991). Attachment and Socialization. In: Lewis, M., Feinman, S. (eds) Social Influences and Socialization in Infancy. Genesis of Behavior, vol 6. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2620-3_9
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