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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

The parenting bit is much harder than the acting bit. You just never know what to do.

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.