Fathers' Influences on Children's Development: The Evidence from Two-Parent Families

Autor/inn/en	Lewis, Charlie; Lamb, Michael E.
Titel	Fathers' Influences on Children's Development: The Evidence from Two-Parent Families
Quelle	In: European Journal of Psychology of Education, 18 (2003) 2, S.211-228 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0256-2928
Schlagwörter	Play; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Fathers; Emotional Development; Parent Influence; Child Development; Gender Differences; Social Development; Adjustment (to Environment); Interaction; Infants; Parenting Styles; Children; Adolescents; Psychological Patterns; Family Environment; Social Influences; Attachment Behavior + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Gefühlsbildung; Kindesentwicklung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Soziale Entwicklung; Interaktion; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Familienmilieu; Sozialer Einfluss; Attachment; Bindungsverhalten
Abstract	Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children thus appear to form closer attachments to their mothers than to their fathers. Second, the data also indicate that fathers may play specific and important roles, with men in some cultures having clearly defined roles as playmates to their children. Third, paternal play styles predict later socio-emotional development while paternal involvement seems to predict adult adjustment better than maternal involvement does. Such evidence suggests, fourth, that we need appropriate measures of fatherhood that are not simply borrowed from the study of motherhood. (As Provided).
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