People don't want to hear about it. Yes, career fulfillment is as important for women as for men, but Fox aims to shift the focus to the needs of the very young who cannot speak for themselves and have few advocates. A central goal is to impart a basic understanding of attachment theory. Initially formulated by English psychologist John Bowlby, who observed the significance of early bonding between infant and mother, the basic precept is that an infant instinctively behaves in many ways to maintain proximity to her primary caregiver, and feels most secure when in close proximity to that person. Slowly, the infant learns that a particular caregiver provides her with a safe, predictable, and comfortable world.
Attachment begins to form and grow.
The attachment that forms provides a secure base from which the child feels free to explore the larger social and physical world. Early lack of positive caregiving causes later social consequences, since the type of attachment that forms between child and caregiver serves as a prototype for later social relationships. When caregivers change it is impossible to prepare the very young because they cannot communicate verbally. The despair of the infant who feels deserted is real despair, even if the desertion is no more than a parent's routine departure for work. Based on early interactions with caregivers, the child creates in his mind what Bowlby termed an internal working model of the world, i.e., a forecast or expectation of how he will be treated in the new world outside of the womb.