Parental Divorce and Children’s Attachment Security: Downstream Effect on Peer Relations
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Children’s first years of school are a sensitive period when peer groups form and early adjustment can set trajectories for inclusion or isolation. Drawing on attachment theory and process-oriented models of family change, this review synthesizes evidence that divorce-related processes, shape children’s attachment security, which in turn forecasts peer functioning at school entry. Specifically focused on caregiving organizations and the interparental climate. Studies indicate that frequent infant overnights without coordinated routines are associated with higher mother–child insecurity, and that ongoing post-divorce conflict increases children’s fear of abandonment. In intact families, hostile marital dynamics undermine, and positive engagement supports, preschool attachment security via spillover to parenting. Meta-analytic and longitudinal findings link early attachment security to peer competence, with self-regulatory capacities (e.g., executive function) providing a plausible mechanism. Within classrooms, teachers can operate as secondary secure-base figures; attachment-relevant behaviors such as constructive negotiation with teachers relate to higher peer acceptance and visibility. The evidence supports a two-setting strategy: at home, emphasize predictable routines, coordinated co-parenting, and conflict reduction; at school, strengthen teacher sensitivity, warm structure, and explicit coaching of regulation and positive negotiation. Together, these practices can stabilize children’s sense of security and promote peer inclusion during the transition to formal schooling.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it