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Child Protection and Custody Issues Attachment & Human Development ISSN: (Print) (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rahd20 Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues Tommie Forslund , Pehr Granqvist , Marinus H. van IJzendoorn , Avi Sagi- Schwartz , Danya Glaser , Miriam Steele , Mårten Hammarlund , Carlo Schuengel , Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg , Howard Steele , Phillip R. Shaver , Ulrike Lux , John Simmonds , Deborah Jacobvitz , Ashley M. Groh , Kristin Bernard , Chantal Cyr , Nancy L. Hazen , Sarah Foster , Elia Psouni , Philip A. Cowan , Carolyn Pape Cowan , Anne Rifkin-Graboi , David Wilkins , Blaise Pierrehumbert , George M. Tarabulsy , Rodrigo A. Carcamo , Zhengyan Wang , Xi Liang , Maria Kázmierczak , Paulina Pawlicka , Lilian Ayiro , Tamara Chansa , Francis Sichimba , Haatembo Mooya , Loyola McLean , Manuela Verissimo , Sonia Gojman-de-Millán , Marlene M. Moretti , Fabien Bacro , Mikko J. Peltola , Megan Galbally , Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemura , Kazuko Y. Behrens , Stephen Scott , Andrés Fresno Rodriguez , Rosario Spencer , Germán Posada , Rosalinda Cassibba , Neus Barrantes-Vidal , Jesus Palacios , Lavinia Barone , Sheri Madigan , Karen Mason-Jones , Sophie Reijman , Femmie Juffer , R. Pasco Fearon , Annie Bernier , Dante Cicchetti , Glenn I. Roisman , Jude Cassidy , Heinz Kindler , Peter Zimmerman , Ruth Feldman , Gottfried Spangler , Charles H. Zeanah , Mary Dozier , Jay Belsky , Michael E. Lamb & Robbie Duschinsky To cite this article: Tommie Forslund , Pehr Granqvist , Marinus H. van IJzendoorn , Avi Sagi- Schwartz , Danya Glaser , Miriam Steele , Mårten Hammarlund , Carlo Schuengel , Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg , Howard Steele , Phillip R. Shaver , Ulrike Lux , John Simmonds , Deborah Jacobvitz , Ashley M. Groh , Kristin Bernard , Chantal Cyr , Nancy L. Hazen , Sarah Foster , Elia Psouni , Philip A. Cowan , Carolyn Pape Cowan , Anne Rifkin-Graboi , David Wilkins , Blaise Pierrehumbert , George M. Tarabulsy , Rodrigo A. Carcamo , Zhengyan Wang , Xi Liang , Maria Kázmierczak , Paulina Pawlicka , Lilian Ayiro , Tamara Chansa , Francis Sichimba , Haatembo Mooya , Loyola McLean , Manuela Verissimo , Sonia Gojman-de-Millán , Marlene M. Moretti , Fabien Bacro , Mikko J. Peltola , Megan Galbally , Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemura , Kazuko Y. Behrens , Stephen Scott , Andrés Fresno Rodriguez , Rosario Spencer , Germán Posada , Rosalinda Cassibba , Neus Barrantes-Vidal , Jesus Palacios , Lavinia Barone , Sheri Madigan , Karen Mason-Jones , Sophie Reijman , Femmie Juffer , R. Pasco Fearon , Annie Bernier , Dante Cicchetti , Glenn I. Roisman , Jude Cassidy , Heinz Kindler , Peter Zimmerman , Ruth Feldman , Gottfried Spangler , Charles H. Zeanah , Mary Dozier , Jay Belsky , Michael E. Lamb & Robbie Duschinsky (2021): Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues, Attachment & Human Development To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2020.1840762 © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Published online: 11 Jan 2021. Submit your article to this journal View related articles View Crossmark data Full Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rahd20 ATTACHMENT & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2020.1840762 ARTICLE Attachment goes to court: child protection and custody issues Tommie Forslund a,b, Pehr Granqvist a, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn c, Avi Sagi-Schwartz d, Danya Glasere,f, Miriam Steele g, Mårten Hammarlund a, Carlo Schuengel h, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg h, Howard Steele g, Phillip R. Shaveri, Ulrike Lux j, John Simmonds k, Deborah Jacobvitz l, Ashley M. Groh m, Kristin Bernard n, Chantal Cyr o, Nancy L. Hazen l, Sarah Foster p, Elia Psouni q, Philip A. Cowanr, Carolyn Pape Cowanr, Anne Rifkin- Graboi s, David Wilkins t, Blaise Pierrehumbert u, George M. Tarabulsyv, Rodrigo A. Carcamo w, Zhengyan Wang x, Xi Liang x, Maria Kázmierczak y, Paulina Pawlicka y, Lilian Ayiro z, Tamara Chansa aa, Francis Sichimba aa, Haatembo Mooya aa, Loyola McLean bb, Manuela Verissimo cc, Sonia Gojman-de- Millándd, Marlene M. Moretti ee, Fabien Bacro ff, Mikko J. Peltola gg, Megan Galbally hh,ii,jj, Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemurakk, Kazuko Y. Behrensll, Stephen Scott mm, Andrés Fresno Rodriguez nn, Rosario Spencer nn, Germán Posadaoo, Rosalinda Cassibba pp, Neus Barrantes-Vidal qq,rr,ss, Jesus Palacios tt, Lavinia Barone uu, Sheri Madigan vv,ww, Karen Mason-Jonesxx, Sophie Reijman yy, Femmie Juffer zz, R. Pasco Fearonaaa, Annie Bernier bbb, Dante Cicchetticcc, Glenn I. Roisman ddd, Jude Cassidyeee, Heinz Kindlerfff, Peter Zimmermanggg, Ruth Feldman hhh, Gottfried Spangleriii, Charles H. Zeanah jjj, Mary Dozierkkk, Jay Belsky lll, Michael E. Lamb mmm and Robbie Duschinsky yy aDepartment of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; bSUF Resource Center, Region Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden; cDepartment of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; dSchool of Psychological Sciences and Center for the Study of Child Development, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel; eGreat Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK; fDepartment of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, London, UK; gPsychology Department, The New School, New York, NY, USA; hFaculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; iUniversity of California, Davis, CA, USA; jDepartment Families and Family Policies, German Youth Institute, Munich, Germany; kBritish Association for Adoption and Fostering at Coram (Corambaaf), London, UK; lDepartment of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA; mDepartment of Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA; nDepartment of Psychology, Stony Brook University, New York, NY, USA; oDépartement de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada; pDepartment of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK; qDepartment of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; rDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; sSingapore Institute for Clinical Sciences (SICS, Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore; tSchool of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; uUniversity of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; vSchool of Psychology, Laval University, Québec City, Canada; wDepartment of Psychology, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile; xResearch Centre for Child Development, Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China; yInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland; zDepartment of Educational Psychology, Maseno University, Kisumu, Kenya; aaDepartment of Psychology, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia; bbBrain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ccWilliam James Center for Research, ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Lisboa, Portugal; ddResearch Center of the Seminario de Sociopsicoanálisis, Mexico City, Mexico; eeDepartment of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; ffFaculté de Psychologie, CONTACT Tommie Forslund [email protected] Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 2 T. FORSLUND ET AL. Université de Nantes, Nantes, France; ggHuman Information Processing Laboratory, Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland; hhCollege of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia; iiSchool of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Australia; jjKing Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco, Australia; kkDepartment of Psychology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan; llDepartment of Social & Behavioral Sciences, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, Utica, NY, USA; mmInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings’s College London, London, UK; nnDepartment of Psychology, University of Talca, Chile; ooDepartment of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA; ppDepartment of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Bari, Italy; qqDepartament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma De Barcelona, Spain; rrSant Pere Claver – Fundació Sanitària, Barcelona, Spain; ssCentre for Biomedical Research Network on Mental Health (CIBERSAM), Barcelona, Spain; ttDepartment of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain; uuDepartment of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Lab of Attachment and Parenting - LAG, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; vvDepartment of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; wwAlberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, AB, Canada; xxCenter for Health & Community, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA; yyDepartment of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; zzCentre for Child and Family Studies,
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