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When children protect themselves by avoiding attachment

We are the seventh home for our foster son and he told me yesterday that he does not want to learn my name because I will leave too

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated abandonment teaches children that love is temporary, making them resist the very connections that could heal them.

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