Theory Of Attachment Theory

3.3 ATTACTHMENT THEORY
Another important theory of significance to this study is attachment theory was first proposed by John Bowlby in 1983. Attachment theory was to simply describe the ways in which young children relate to their caregivers demonstrating that they are either securely or insecurely attached (Slade, 1999). Attachment theory focused our attention on the importance of young children’s relationships with their caregivers; more recently it has helped us understand the impact of early attachments on later relationships (Heineman, 2010). Street children need a safe and caring environment away from the street in which to undertake a process of physical, psychological, emotional and social healing and restoration.
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As utterly dependent creatures, they must rely on caregivers for physical and emotional survival (Heineman, 2010). These young helpless kids moved on the street with the capacity to form new relationship. They enter new world on the street to create new life for themselves and they become secure attachment to the street life. Secure attachments to caregivers provide the foundation for emotional well-being, offering children a solid base from which to explore the world (Heineman, 2010). These are young people who spend a significant part of their time on the streets because this is where they work and socialise. The most fundamental emotional deprivation that street children face the lack of love and support from a caring adult in the form of a close personal relationship. According to attachment theory (Heineman, 2010), A sense of security and confidence in relationships develops when parents, or other caregivers, reliably read and respond to their infants’ cues. Consistent and intense love and nurturing that most children are accustomed to receiving from their parents are conspicuously absent from the lives of street children. Many young people who live on the street or in unstable living situations have not had the good fortune to have grown up in homes where they had the opportunity to form stable attachments early on. This theory is appropriate for this particular kind of study, as it gives clues as to what causes young people to move on the