Violence Against Women

Violence against women and girls is a hidden global crisis which knows no boundaries of geography or culture. However, marginalized women, such as poor women and girls, are most likely to experience it, most often at the hands of their husbands or partners. Violence by men, typically against women is a longstanding problem and remains…

attachment

Why did we evolve the capacity for different attachment styles? Why would an infant become detached when faced with an unresponsive caregiver? We can imagine that such caregivers, especially in the evolutionary past, might have been unresponsive because they were busy trying to survive in a dangerous or resource-scarce environment. A detached and self-reliant attachment…