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Further evidence of intergenerational continuity in attachment from parent to child comes from a study in which researchers interviewed pregnant women about their attachment histories and then measured their infants' attachments at 1 year of age (Fonagy et al., 1991). This research design enabled the investigators to rule out the possibility that the mothers' experiences with their babies had influenced their memories of their own childhoods. Like Main, these researchers also found significant links between mothers' recollections of their childhood relationships and children's attachment relationships with them. Likewise, studies in foster families showed a high level of concordance between foster mothers' recollections of their childhood relationships with parents and their foster children's attachment quality (Dozier et al., 2001; Dozier & Rutter, 2016). This suggests that the intergenerational transmission of attachment is the result of parents' attachment-fostering behaviors, not a genetic link between parent and child. That said, more recent quantitative reviews by Verhage and her colleagues (2016, 2018) suggest that the intergenerational transmission of attachment is significantly weaker in higher-risk samples in comparison to lower risk samples. These recent findings have been interpreted as evidence consistent with the "ecological constraints" hypothesis, which states that difficult early contextual experience. Need Assignment Help?