A child that has insecure attachments to their caregiver can also develop low self-esteem.

Anxious-avoidant is an insecure attachment between an infant and a caregiver.

Secure attachments reflect trust in the child-caretaker relationship while insecure attachment reflects mistrust.

This can become a pervasive way of relating to others in adult life described as insecure attachment.

Principles of attachment parenting aim to increase development of a child's secure attachment and decrease insecure attachment.

Early insecure attachment does not necessarily predict difficulties, but it is a liability for the child, particularly if similar parental behaviours continue throughout childhood.

Environmental risk can cause insecure attachment, while also favouring the development of strategies for earlier reproduction.

Adrenarche is proposed as the endocrine mechanism underlying the reorganisation of insecure attachment in middle childhood.

Anxious-resistant insecure attachment is also called ambivalent attachment.

Fifty percent of the daycare children he studied developed insecure attachments to their mothers and a wide range of negative behaviors.