Thank you so much, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses.
I have three daughters. Two are in their thirties and one is in her twenties. When it's a bad day for one of my daughters, it's a super bad day for my wife, and it's a really bad day for me until I find a way to fix something. I guess that's the power of attachment. When my daughters were born at home, the midwife said that, for the next 10 days, the mother and the baby were to stay in that bed. They're not on the phone and all the other stuff in the world just has to stop. That was attachment.
I never really thought much about how attachment happens with a child or with a baby. We're talking about something here that is more intentional. It's something that has to be constructed, in a sense.
Ms. Eisner, you're an expert on this in a way that I'll never be. What does attachment mean to you? It's also a two-way street. Isn't that right?
How do you see it as someone who came into...? You were 11 at the time. How would you explain it to another young person who would be going into that situation? What is attachment and how do we make it work?