Children and Separation Anxiety Disorder

I am currently working on a paper for my Psychopathology class on Separation Anxiety in children. This is on the heels of a paper I did last week on Reactive Attachment Disorder. Both of these speak to the basic needs of children to have secure attachment to their caregivers; conversely, how destructive an insecure attachment can be in their understanding of themselves and the world around them. It is heartbreaking that there are parents who abuse their children; the effects of which last typically into late adolescence and adulthood. This is in stark contrast to those married couples who try but cannot have children for one reason or another, who can understand the value of human life at a potentially deeper level (than those who take life for granted). I am friends (and know of) several couples who have either adopted because they could not have children of their own, or those who already had other children but decided to adopt, too. I am so proud of those who open up their homes to those who need to know what it is to be loved; to know that they are love-able; to know that they matter, are safe, and from whom they can develop a secure attachment. God can redeem the years that have been lost in their young lives.