Evaluation

• P - Strength , real world applications

  UK does not have orphanages / institutions

  More push towards foster families due to potential damage we are now aware of

  D - However , promotes stigma of older children being harder to adopt and makes some children be seen as undesirable

  Social sensitivity issues involving this
• P - Limitation , Lack of adult data

  Longitudinal study - followed up to the age of 25

  Missing data after this point , do not know the lasting impacts as they are not followed thoroughly

  D - However , all proposed ideas about research collected within the timeframe is still valid and viable making it a perfectly good theory for this ideas
• P - Limitation , confounding variables

  Levels of care between orphanages may have varied

  Means cause and effect is difficult to be established

  D - However , all orphanages still functioned under the same principle of having multiple carers which lead to no real attachment being formed and so proposed requirement for disinhibited attachment style were still present