The Link Between Insecure Attachment and Child Abuse

  If in early childhood a child learns to relate to violence, it’s likely that they’ll become violent in adulthood. Violence is a channel that some adults use to relate to others. Children learn from their parents. Therefore, if they see violence as a valid way of behaving, they imitate it. Moreover, elements of child abuse can lead the child, as an adult, to be abusive. In fact, violence, as well as attachment style, can be transmitted from generation to generation. According to attachment theory, humans are ‘preprogrammed’ to establish contact with other humans. The objective of these behaviors is…