In this paper, I create a framework that explains how homelessness reduces a child's attachment security. Attachment theory states how over time and repeated interactions, children and caregivers develop patterns of behavior that foster the development of children's schemas about what to generally expect from relationships with others. In order for children to develop secure attachments, a caregiver must be consistent and sensitive when responding to their child. Homeless caregivers have to juggle many stressors at once and therefore have fewer mental or physical resources (the effects of caregiver stress) to devote to consistent, sensitive, and responsive caregiving. This theoretically grounded framework proposes that stressors affect homeless caregivers, which in turn affects their effective parenting effort, which ultimately impacts the child's attachment. I describe in detail each of the proposed associations in the framework and summarize existing literature that supports these theoretical processes. Limitations and future directions are also discussed.

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无家可归如何影响儿童对其照顾者的依恋的框架

在本文中，我创建了一个框架来解释无家可归如何降低孩子的依恋安全感。依恋理论指出，随着时间的推移和反复的互动，儿童和照顾者如何形成行为模式，从而促进儿童对与他人关系的普遍期望的图式的发展。为了让孩子形成安全依恋，看护者在回应孩子时必须始终如一且敏感。无家可归的看护者必须同时应对许多压力源，因此用于持续、敏感和反应灵敏的看护的精神或体力资源（看护者压力的影响）较少。这个理论框架提出，压力源会影响无家可归的照顾者，进而影响他们有效的养育努力，最终影响孩子的依恋。我详细描述了框架中提出的每个关联，并总结了支持这些理论过程的现有文献。还讨论了局限性和未来的方向。