The subjects were 36 mother, infant (aged 11 to 23 months), and older sibling (aged 30 to 79 months) triads. A variation of the Ainsworth (1978) Strange Situation Procedure (Stewart, 1983) was used to assess attachment and caregiving: several measures were used to assess the older sibling's level of empathy and perspective-taking ability. Highly significant correlations were obtained between older sibling's caregiving and infant attachment, � = .69, p<.OOOl, and between sibling's caregiving and level of empathy, � = .70, p<.OOOl. However, caregiving was not significantly related to perspective-taking. The age of the older sibling was found to be related to caregiving (� = .36, p<.03), empathy (� = .51, p<.OOl), and perspectivetaking ability(�= .75, p<.OOOl). These findings suggest that empathy may be a more important factor in child caregiving and infant sibling attachment than perspective-taking ability.