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People whose only crime was their attachment to their homeland were being forced to live in fear.

Planning for care provision and permanency should be based on, notably, the nature and quality of the child’s attachment to his/her family, the family’s capacity to safeguard the child’s well-being and harmonious development, the child’s need or desire to feel part of a family, the desirability of the child remaining within his/her community and country, the child’s cultural, linguistic and religious background, and the child’s relationships with siblings, with a view to avoiding their separation.

Silver, who believes that Jim has the map, has a chance to kill Jim, but refuses to do so because of his attachment to the boy.

This comes with an increased sense of attachment, manifested in shared symbolic representation (objects can hold meanings beyond their real use) and associated actions (behaviours defy the limits of the real world), often in highly novel and creative forms (Turner 2007 ).

Small island developing States are also home to a large number of indigenous family groups, who have retained robust cultures, more than 1,000 distinct languages and strong traditional attachments to the land and the sea.

Timothy Ælurus (d. 477) who had been ordained priest by St. Cyril himself, and preserved a profound attachment to that saint, published an edition of some of his works.

Play acts across several adaptive systems to contribute to health, well-being and resilience. These include: pleasure and enjoyment; emotion regulation; stress response systems; attachments; and learning and creativity.

The specific safety, health, nutritional, developmental and other needs of babies and young children, including those with special needs, should be catered for in all care settings, including ensuring their ongoing attachment to a specific carer.

These friendships provide protective mechanisms against stress; secure attachments establish the foundations for co-creating situations of graduated uncertainty, to empathise with the emotional expressions of others and work collectively to restore balance.

More broadly, it is a suppression of a playful disposition to life, with the associated reduction in motivation to engage in playful activity, declining possibilities for developing friendships and strong attachments, and difficulties in sustaining positive emotions when experienced (Forbes and Dahl2005).

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Given that place frames the circumstances of children’s experiences, they are ‘attached’ to it for better or worse (Chawla1992).

Decisions regarding children in alternative care, including those in informal care, should have due regard for the importance of ensuring children a stable home and of meeting their basic need for safe and continuous attachment to their caregivers, with permanency generally being a key goal.

The holistic benefits of play across physical activity and health, well-being and attachments to people and place are likely to be more effective and self-reinforcing than through structured activity programmes (Burdette and Whitaker ).