Another indication of the child’s need for safety is his preference for some kind of ______ routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world. For instance, injustice, unfairness, or inconsistency in the parents seems to make a child feel anxious and unsafe. This attitude may be not so much because of the injustice as such or any particular pains involved, but rather because this treatment threatens to make the world look unreliable, or unsafe, or unpredictable.
