There was criticism of the confusion of the effects of privation (no primary attachment figure) and deprivation (loss of the primary attachment figure) and in particular, of the failure to distinguish between the effects of the lack of a primary attachment figure and the other forms of deprivation and understimulation that might affect children in institutions.
Der var kritik af den forvirring af virkningerne af afsavn (ingen primær tilknytning figur) og afsavn (tab af den primære tilknytning figur) og især manglende skelne mellem virkningerne af manglen på en primær tilknytning tal og de andre former af afsavn og understimulering, der kan påvirke børn i institutioner.