The ability to feel and express pain, to cry out and then feel comfort - these things tighten the attachment bond.

The attachment bond can also color all future relationships the infant will go on to develop in life.

They were actually asked to fill out questionnaires assessing their recollections of maternal care and closeness, two key features of the attachment bond.

The aim of EFFT is to repair, instigate, and restore attachment bonds between the family members.

Relationships are attachment bonds.

The foundation of the attachment bond allows the child to venture out from his/her mother to try new experiences and new interactions.

Childhood traumatisation to the attachment bond, usually through separation from or loss of the primary mother or mother-substitute, led to adult difficulties.

Robertson and Bowlby saw breaks in a child's attachment bonds as responded to by 'phases of protest despair and detachment'.

She established five criteria for affectional bonds between individuals, and a sixth criterion for attachment bonds:

An attachment bond has an additional criterion: the person seeks security and comfort in the relationship.