Role Of The Father

Question 1

Who ignored the role of the father

Answer 1

Psychologists in 1940s/50s due to seeing the mother as crucial and needed for attachment

Question 2

What did bowlby propose?

Answer 2

In 1944 he said that maternal deprivation(lack of care from mother) in the first 2-3 years causes irreversible consequences in later life

Question 3

what is the overall opinion of the role of the father in the modern day?

Answer 3

The father plays just as an important role as the mother
Due to research proving consequences for paternal deprivation

Question 4

What did Schaffer and Emerson find and what year

Answer 4

In 1964 found that fathers were less likely to be the attachment figure but where infact joint attachment figures in around 1/3 infants studied

Question 5

What was the role of the father in pre 1990s

Answer 5

-discipline
- don’t listen to children
- no physical care
- lack of emotional care

Question 6

What is the role of the father in 2024/ modern day

Answer 6

-much more active in physical and emotional care
-paternity leave is optional
- quality time is important
- house husbands
- some same sex marriages (two dad)

Question 7

What is the role of the father in 2024

Answer 7

• more active in physical and emotional care
• paternity leave is optional
• quality time is important
• house husbands
• same sex marriages (two dads)

Question 8

What are the 3 key factors of the role of the father

Answer 8

1) interaction
2) accessibility
3) responsibility

Question 9

What is interaction for the role of the father

Answer 9

How often the engagement with children is meaningful

Question 10

What is accessibility in the role of the father

Answer 10

Is the father physically and emotionally accessible

Question 11

What is responsibility in the role of the father

Answer 11

Does the father take responsibility for caregiving without being promoted

Question 12

Explain grossman study

Answer 12

GROSSMAN
• Longitudinal study - parents’ behaviour and relationship to quality of infants’ attachment into their teens
• Attachment with mothers but not fathers related to attachment in adolescence suggests that the father was less important
• Fathers play related to quality of adolescent attachment.
• Fathers play a different role in attachment.
• Play and stimulation instead of nurture.

Question 13

Pros of role of the father

Answer 13

• Real life application: information can be offered as advice to parents who don’t know who should take the primary care-giver role.
• Mothers may feel pressured into staying at home/ fathers pressured to work

Question 14

Cons of role of the father

Answer 14

• Confusion over research: lack of clarity over what questions being asked.
• Some researchers concerned if fathers were secondary/primary attachment figure.
• Fathers have distinct role from mothers and can take on “maternal” role.

• Conflicting evidence: findings vary
• Grossman et al: fathers have important & distinct role as secondary attachment figure.
• Children growing up in SPF / same-sex families expected to develop differently.
McCallum and Golombok - show no difference from children in homosexual families.