In opposition to Lewis 1985, Sameroff, 1991) emphasized that there had to be mutual influence of attachment, between the child and their environments. He also points that interactions between these three elements can result in modification of response and outcome. Sameroff, (1991) points out that if children have provided stability when developmental outcomes are cut short, but can be reversed. This suggest that interventions in the microsystems like family and peers and school can alter the proximal relationship between others behaviour of the infant. This, in turn, can impact on children’s self-esteem; and their own sense of self worth. This gives us the understanding that a child’s emerging identity is, in part, produced by the interplay
