Role Of The Father

Question 1

What did shaffer and emerson find about attachments with mothers and fathers?

Answer 1

Babies first become attached to their mothers around 7 months.
In 3% of cases the father was the first attachment

Question 2

What did Grossman suggest about the role of the father?

Answer 2

Fathers=play and stimulation

Quality of fathers play was related to adolescent attachments.

Question 3

Limitation PET fathers are not as important as attachment figures

Answer 3

P-contradictory evidence to show fathers are not important as attachment figures
E-Grossman, play+stimulation. Same sex parent families develop different
T-question to whether fathers have a distinct role is unanswered