Original sentence: Incorporation of this type of partnership into the internal working model prepares the growing child for later mature friendships, marriage, and parenthood.The mature internal working model of social relationships thus advances far beyond the basic desire to maintain proximity to familiar people, although this type of behaviour may continue to be present in times of threat or pain
Edited sentence: Although peers become important in middle childhood, the evidence suggests that peers do not become attachment figures even though children may direct attachment behaviours at peers if parental figures are unavailable.Attachments to peers tend to emerge in adolescence although parents also continue to function as attachment figures.By middle childhood there may a shift towards mutual co-regulation of secure-base contact.In early childhood, parental figures remain the centre of childrens social worlds, even if they spend substantial periods of time in alternative care.In the course of middle childhood, some children may begin to develop a general internally consistent representation of attachment relationships although this may in fact not occur until adolescence.This lessens, particularly with entrance into formal schooling.Young childrens attachment representations are typically assessed in relation to particular attachment figures as it appears that there are limitations in their thinking that limit their ability to integrate relationship experiences into a single general model