ABSTRACT
What is it, as if it is only one thing, that ensures for one infant, despite trials and tribulations, a sense of possibility and capacity to engage with the world, and yet for another—often despite care and concern—a sense of exclusion or impenetrability about the world, and yet for even another the resultant anguish of the seemingly constant companion of fear and anxiety? What shapes the infant’s options, his or her tomorrows?
