ANTH 239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dating Abuse, Group Dating, Attachment Theory
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First tentative explorations of love, usually superficial, brief and often fraught with. Males - physical attraction, females - interpersonal qualities. Child can rely on caregiver to attend to needs of proximity, emotional support and protection. Key idea; secure attachment with caregivers promotes healthier relationships with others. Intimacy develops between opposite sex peers tend to emerge within a dating context. Intimacy with parents decrease until middle adolescence then increases again in young adulthood. Bradford brown 1999 has proposed a developmental model of adolescent love that recognizes the important role played by peers and friend. Bonding phase (usually occurs in emerging adulthood vs adolescence) The romantic relationship becomes more enduring and serious - partners begin to discuss the possibility. Higher rates of dating violence in low ses groups. Young exclusive daters tend to be less socially developed. 10 percent of high school students reported physical victimization and 10%
