Ms. Carolyn McLeod at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On November 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 29th, 2023 / 5:55 p.m.

Professor, Western University, As an Individual

Definitely.

Part of our report touches on the special difficulties that children in care face when it comes to attaching to their new parents. There are definitely heightened challenges there, and that comes from having previous attachments disrupted. I mean, everything that Cassandra said is borne out in the literature, in terms of the difficulty and in terms of the importance of having that attachment to a caregiver.

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