Table 6.

Distributions of Adult Attachment Interview classifications for parents who adopted internationally, foster parents, parents living in poverty and referred to CPS, and low-risk mothers

	Three Way (%)			Four Way (%)
	Ds	F	E	Ds	F	E	U/CC
Low-risk mothers (n = 748 or 700)	23	58	19	16	56	9	18
International adoptive parents (n = 147)	12	81	8	9	75	5	11
Foster parents (n = 300)	25	64	11	19	55	1	25
Poverty/CPS-referred parents (n = 284)	46	37	17	34	30	5	31

Note: The values are the percentages within each group. CPS, Child Protective Services; Ds, dismissing; F, autonomous; E, preoccupied; U, unresolved; CC, cannot classify. Data for low-risk mothers are drawn from Bakermans-Kranenburg and van IJzendoorn (2009). For the low-risk mothers, the sample sizes were 748 for the three-way distribution and 700 for the four-way distribution.