Role of the father
- Created by: Georgia
- Created on: 02-05-19 10:52
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- The role of the father
- Father traditionally seen as playing minor role
- Patriarchal society in the past; men at work, women at home
- Only 9% of single parents are men
- Bowlby believed children had one primary attachment figure, usually the mother
- Father seen as more a playmate than a caregiver
- Mothers perceived to show more sensitive responsiveness
- Recognising and responding to infants' needs
- Degree of sensitivity
- More secure attachments when fathers are more sensitive to child's needs
- Attachment with own parents
- Tend to form similar attachments with own children that they had with own parents
- Marital intimacy
- How much intimacy exists in the relationship with partner
- Supportive co-parenting
- Amount of support father receives in nurturing children
- Evaluation
- Supportive fathers give mothers time to relax from childcare, reduces stress and improves self-esteem
- Effectively improves quality of relationship
- Still remains a difference in society although mothers and fathers are not seen to be different in this theory
- Children with secure attachments with fathers have more stable relationships with peers and less behavioural problems
- Children without stable paternal relationships do less well at school and are more aggressive
- Supportive fathers give mothers time to relax from childcare, reduces stress and improves self-esteem
- Geiger (1996) Fathers' play interactions are more exciting than mothers'
- Supports idea of father as playmate, mother more nurturing
- Father traditionally seen as playing minor role
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