Abstract
The quality and character of children’s close relationships is proving to be the central concept linking the myriad of factors that have a bearing on development. Relationships provide the key experience that connects children’s personal and social worlds. It is within the dynamic interplay between these two worlds that minds form and personalities grow, behaviour evolves and social competence begins. All the more remarkable then that, until 30 years ago, only clinicians appeared to be interested in relationships. ‘By an extraordinary omission’, admits Hinde (1995: 1), ‘the psychological sciences simply bypassed what is the most important issue in most people’s lives — the nature of interpersonal relationships.’
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