The Role Of The Father And Multiple Attachements

Question 1

What is the definition of the role of the father?

Answer 1

The parts make figure play with regards to children.

Question 2

Sensitive responsiveness

Answer 2

The extent to which caregivers can recognize and respond appropriately to an infants needs.

Question 3

The father as a playmate summary :

Answer 3

• mothers have been seen to show sensitive responsiveness
• fathered therefore have been seen as less of a caregiver and more of a playmate
• fathers play is more physical, unpredictable and exciting compared to mothers
• therefore their role is seen as distinct and separate from the mothers

Question 4

the father as a secondary attachments summary :

Answer 4

• Schaffer and Emerson found that babies attached to their mothers first at 65%.
• father was the only form of attachment in 3% of the cases
• both caregivers were joint objects of attachments in 27 % of the cases.
• within these weeks after forming an attachment with the mother (primary form of attachment ) babies formed secondary attachments including the father

The role of the father becomes more significant as 75% of the infants studied had formed an attachment with the father by 18 months.

Question 5

The father as a primary caregiver summary :

Answer 5

• primary caregivers are the main responsibility for providing comprehensive care and secondary caregivers offer crucial support and relief.
• fathers may become the primary caregiver instead of they show sensitive responsiveness like mothers
• an example is fields experiment when he filmed 4 month old babies having face to face interactions with pcg mothers, pcg fathers and scg fathers .
• pcg fathers and mothers spent more time smiling and holding infants compared to scg fathers
• this research shows that fathers have the potential to be primary caregiver when showing emotional attachment
• this therefore shows that the key to attachment in a relationship is the level of responsiveness and not the gender of the parents