Activity: IWMs and new relationships
Allow about 10 minutes
This activity should help you to begin to think about how IWMs, formed during infancy, might affect later relationships.
For each of the four infant vignettes outlined in the previous Activity, consider how the IWM that the infant formed might influence the form of a first romantic attachment when the infant becomes a teenager.
1 An infant who is one of a pair of identical twins, with a single parent who is not working and struggles on a low income
2 An infant who is an only child with two working parents who share caring roles but also have an au-pair who cares for the infant during the day
3 An infant with an illness that necessitates long periods in hospital with painful treatments that require periods of isolation
4 An infant in a nomadic ethnic group where all adults take shared responsibility for the care of infants
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