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ReviewThe Psychiatric quarterly2018

Nature, Nurture, and Attachment: Implications in Light of Expanding Definitions of Parenthood.

Alexandra Junewicz, Stephen Bates Billick

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Review in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Alexandra JunewiczDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, One Park Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA. Alexandra.junewicz@nyumc.org.ORCID 0000-0003-3731-2983
Stephen Bates BillickDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, One Park Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10016, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent expansion of the legal definition of parenthood in New York State raises the question of whether the presence of a genetic relationship between a parent and child trumps environmental and interpersonal factors in the formation of a strong, secure attachment bond. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize that attachment between a child and secure attachment figure is inherently biological, and that such biological attachment supersedes the existence of a genetic parent-child relationship. First, the paper provides an overview of attachment and its biological basis. It then discusses the impact on attachment of environmental and interpersonal influences, which current research suggests have the power to alter brain biology. There is no clear evidence that a genetic relationship confers a significant advantage in terms of attachment. This paper proposes that the term "biological parent" be redefined to include anyone with whom a child shares a strong attachment bond.

Indexed as

Interpersonal RelationsObject AttachmentParent-Child RelationsHumansParentingPsychological TheoryAttachmentBiological parentNeurobiologyParent-child relationshipParenthood

Identifiers

PMID29292478

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