ATTACHMENT MATTERS
Julian Grenier (To the Point, 4 November) is right to counsel against making snap judgements about the security of a child's attachment to their family. However, I'm not so sure I agree with his comments about the importance of secure attachments in general and I don't accept his analogy of 'wanting all children to have a secure attachment is rather like wanting all adults to be six feet tall'. Speaking as a six-foot-tall woman, I know the disadvantages that height brings - and from an equalities perspective, I fail to see why 'tallness' is considered better than shortness and therefore something we would wish for all.
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