Role of the father AO3
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- Role of the father AO3
- Limitation: researchers interested in different research questions
- Some psychologists want to understand role of fathers as secondary attachment figures, others primary
- Former: fathers behave differently from mothers and having a distinct role. Latter: father take on a 'maternal' role
- Limitation as it is more difficult to easily answer the question of what the role of the father exactly is
- Former: fathers behave differently from mothers and having a distinct role. Latter: father take on a 'maternal' role
- Some psychologists want to understand role of fathers as secondary attachment figures, others primary
- Limitation: evidence undermines idea of fathers having distinct roles
- Grossman (2002): fathers as secondary attachment figures had important and distinct role in child's development: play and stim
- Other studies (McCallum & Golombok 2004): children growing up in single/same-sex parent families don't develop differently from those in two-parent families
- Suggests father's role as a secondary attachment figure is not important
- Other studies (McCallum & Golombok 2004): children growing up in single/same-sex parent families don't develop differently from those in two-parent families
- Grossman (2002): fathers as secondary attachment figures had important and distinct role in child's development: play and stim
- Limitation: researchers interested in different research questions
- Economic implications
- Mothers feel pressured to stay at home because of research suggesting that mothers are vital for healthy emotional development
- Families with working mothers taking maternity leave may economically struggle, as well as society in general.
- Resarch into the ROTF suggests fathers can take the role of a caregiver - this could effect the timeframe in which a mother returns to work after giving birth
- Families with working mothers taking maternity leave may economically struggle, as well as society in general.
- Role of the father AO3
- Limitation: researchers interested in different research questions
- Some psychologists want to understand role of fathers as secondary attachment figures, others primary
- Former: fathers behave differently from mothers and having a distinct role. Latter: father take on a 'maternal' role
- Limitation as it is more difficult to easily answer the question of what the role of the father exactly is
- Former: fathers behave differently from mothers and having a distinct role. Latter: father take on a 'maternal' role
- Some psychologists want to understand role of fathers as secondary attachment figures, others primary
- Limitation: evidence undermines idea of fathers having distinct roles
- Grossman (2002): fathers as secondary attachment figures had important and distinct role in child's development: play and stim
- Other studies (McCallum & Golombok 2004): children growing up in single/same-sex parent families don't develop differently from those in two-parent families
- Suggests father's role as a secondary attachment figure is not important
- Other studies (McCallum & Golombok 2004): children growing up in single/same-sex parent families don't develop differently from those in two-parent families
- Grossman (2002): fathers as secondary attachment figures had important and distinct role in child's development: play and stim
- Limitation: researchers interested in different research questions
- Mothers feel pressured to stay at home because of research suggesting that mothers are vital for healthy emotional development
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