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[–]EvilPundit2 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
An extract:
The time a dad spends with his children is a particularly strong predictor of how empathetic a child will become, according to commission of experts who wrote a proposal asking President Obama to create a White House Council on Boys and Men. The group, which Farrell helped assemble, compiled research showing infants with dads living at home were months ahead in personal and social development.
Children who lack contact with fathers are more likely to be treated for emotional or behavioral problems. Girls with absent or indifferent fathers are more prone to hyperactivity. If dad is around, girls are less likely to become pregnant as teens. As early as 1993, studies showed that dads also influenced whether their sons became teenage fathers.
A Temple University study found no boys born to teen mothers became teen fathers if they had close relationships with their biological fathers, compared to 15 percent of those who didn’t have that closeness.
[–]jpflathead4 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
Thank you for posting this.
What I like about this article, that the title doesn't reveal, is that it's about biological fathers. Or at least stresses the importance of biological fathers.
I often feel like shit. I read many articles that say:
And my kids, who were alienated from me, do have a "father". My ex, their mom, remarried. I think the guy is an ass, but he probably is great as a father figure. My kids were alienated from me, and they told the court they consider this other guy their father. And hell, everyone in the world, almost all media, almost all pundits agree. I've seen many many tv shows and movies and read real life articles and blogs where the point is made some person's "real" father was not their biological father, but the dude that took care of them.
So many times, this leaves me feeling outside of all movements, all blog posts that try to be sympathetic. My kids aren't being brought up by a single mom, they aren't impoverished in most any manner, and they even have a father. Sounds wonderful, why would they ever need me?
So thanks for posting this,
Sorry for the maudlin tmi. Wish I could blame some vodka but I'm out.
[–]Sasha_2 points 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
I'm so sorry for your experience, I can't imagine how hard that must be.
What amazes me in these cases is what the other guy is thinking of. How do you move in on another man's family, hook up with the mother and take over the kids, and support cutting him out? How low and desperate do you need to be?
I'd never date a single mother in million years, but if I did, I'd do everything I could to support the child having a relationship with its father. It seems to me it would be utterly immoral to do otherwise.
[–]rg571 point 12 years ago [recovered] | Copy Link
Neither the sex, nor the genetic relationship, affects outcomes in the parent-child relationship (from infancy).
Fathers matter (and mothers matter) but only to the degree that they are parents. Parents matter.
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