Yes Your Parent's Fault By Kate Murphy: Article Analysis

According to Wade, Tavris, and Garry (2015) Mary Ainsworth divided children in her Strang Situation test into three categories of attachment: secure, insecure avoidant, and insecure anxious-avoidant. The securely attached children would cry when the mother left the room and would become happy once she returned, the avoidant children would be unmoved by the mother’s departure and show no desire to restore contact, and the anxious-avoidant children would cry when she left but refuse contact when she returned (Wade, Tavris, Garry 2015). These are the attachment styles that Kate Murphy (2017) is referring to in her 2017 New York Times article Yes, It’s Your Parent’s Fault. In her article, Murphy discusses how attachment styles influence how an individual believes relationships work, how attachment therapy can reverse

Hong and Park (2012) noted in their 2012 paper Impact of attachment, temperament, and parenting on human development that insecure attachments are one of many risk factors for psychopathology, and that insecure children may possess fewer social skills and less developed communication skills when compared to securely attached contemporaries. These children will also have much higher levels of anxiety, even under normal circumstances, and be unable to achieve peak performance due to the frequency of their anxiety (Hong, Park 2012). These findings support the notion that the attachments a child forms with their parents can have a detrimental affect on the child. In this case, insecurely attached children were more likely to develop anxiety disorders, which could very well inhibit them forming healthy relationships as adults. Additionally, these findings indicate that these children could very well benefit from the intervention programs that Murphy (2017) discusses, such as at the University of