The Role of the Father

Question 1

What did Schaffer and Emerson find?

Answer 1

75% of the infants in their study formed a secondary
attachment to their father by the age of 18 months, with 29% doing so within a month of
forming a primary attachment

Question 2

Who made the argument for the father potential for primary attatchment figure

Answer 2

Tiffany Field
(throught obervation) found that primary caregivers, regardless of gender, were
more attentive towards the infant and spent more time holding and smiling at them

Question 3

Who suggests the father is IRRELEVENT

Answer 3

MacCallum and Golombok demonstrated that children
growing up in homosexual or single-parent families were not different compared to children