It's About The Kids

Research shows...
Staying connected in most families, children attach to their parents or caregivers through emotional bonds. This attachment is important to a child’s life because it provides a secure, emotional foundation for the child to build relationships later on in life. When divorce, foster case, or out-of home placement occurs these attachments are interrupted, and a child’s emotional well-being becomes at risk. A child’s emotional stability will continue to crumble if no investment of love and time is given to the parent/child relationship. Trust levels drop and the ability to connect with anyone dissolves leaving a child at risk for life-long issues as well as vulnerable to sexual and physical abuse, violence, emotional abuse, and other high-risk situations where that loss of parental bonds leaves them numb and defenseless.