Role Of The Father

Question 1

Schaffer and Emerson found that fathers are..

Answer 1

Secondary attachment figures, majority of babies attach to their mother first and in only 3% of cases the father was the first sole object of attachment

Question 2

Grossman found that

Answer 2

Quality of attachment with the father was less important for the teen than the quality of attachment with the mother

Question 3

Bowlby suggested that

Answer 3

Father’s play is more important, father role is to engage in physically active and novel play than the mother and tends to become his child’s preferred play companian