Most adoptive parents are aware of the importance of attachment to a child's emotional health.
The ability to trust, and form reciprocal relationships, will affect the emotional health, security, and safety of the child, as well as his development and future inter-personal relationships. An unattached child is a danger to himself and society. He has no sense of belonging to anyone, nor anyone to him. This results in all of his inter- actions with people taking on equal significance. He is at risk with strangers, and a patsy when it comes to peer pressure.