Attachment disorders occur when there is insufficient quality and quantity of emotional nurture in the critical first few years of life. This most commonly occurs with children who have been adopted from certain parts of the world after living in an orphanage for a year or two. But, it can also occur in non-adopted children when a parent dies while the child is an infant, or the parent becomes less available due to health issues, mental health problems, serious marital conflict, or if the child is seriously abused in the first few years of life. Signs of attachment pathology are seen in children who are unusually reluctant / unable to separate from a parent when going to preschool, or when the child separates with unusual ease without seeming anxious or fearful at all. As the child with an attachment disorder grows older, he/she can have behavioral problems marked by an apparent absence of guilt or remorse. They don’t seem to care about the feelings of others; they don’t learn from their mistakes, and they lack emotionally close / intimate connections with others. They are often impulsive, are thrill-seeking and even seem to court danger. They seem to have little, if any respect for authority.