Attachment Parenting International of Merrimack Valley aims is to educate and support all parents in raising secure, joyful, and empathic children in order to strengthen families and create a more compassionate world. Through education, support, advocacy and research, API's principal goal is to heighten global awareness of the profound significance of secure attachment - not only to invest in our children's bright futures, but to reduce and ultimately prevent emotional and physical mistreatment of children, addiction, crime, behavioral disorders, mental illness, and other outcomes of early unhealthy attachment.