In an article titled “The formation of secure new attachments by children who were maltreated: An observational study of adolescents in foster care”, this article looks into how attachments are form. With the data provided in this article from their study it shows that secure attachments are formed better with the foster mother at a young age. According to some of their findings some of the children “develop normative and even secure attachments to adoptive parents following institutional deprivation and that the quality of attachment to new caregivers mediates at least some of the improvements in child adjustment”. (Connor, Briskman, Maughan,Scott 2013). When the child is older they have a harder time attaching to the foster parents, and lack
