A child’s healthy development is crucial to the growth of a strong society. In order for a child to progress successfully, it is essential to have the father in the juvenile’s life. It has been proven that, the “father’s love appears to be as heavily implicated as a mother’s love in offspring’s psychological well-being and health ” (Rohner & Veneziano, 2001, p. 382-405). It has also been shown, “that fathers make important contributions to their children's cognitive and behavioral functioning” (Pougnet, Schwartzman, Serbin, & Stack, 2011, p.173-182). Unfortunately without the father, “sons obtained lower scores for all the moral indexes significantly lower for internal moral judgment, maximum guilt following transgressions, acceptance of blame, moral values, and rule conformity; and were rated by teachers as significantly more aggressive than father-present boys” (Hoffman & Michigan, 1971, p. 400-406), and “reported father–daughter relationships characterized by rejection, chaos, and coercion had lower morning cortical levels and were temperamentally more sensitive to emotional changes” (Auer, Byred-Craven, Granger, & Massey, 2012, p.87-94). It is then understood that if the father is in the child’s life or absent from his/her life, the child will be affected.
To begin with, there was a study dealing with delinquent and non-delinquent boys. The study showed that “the great majority of delinquents felt rejected by their fathers but not necessarily by their mothers. Non-delinquents, on the other hand, tended to feel loved by both parents” (Rohner &Veneziano, 2001,p. 382-405). There was no change in the behavior of the boys when the maternal love was present. This indicates, that when the paternal love is present and or absent th...
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...ctioning skills, as well as behaving negatively. Therefore, in order for a child to develop successfully paternal love is essential.
Works Cited
Auer, B. J., Byrd-Craven, J., Granger, D. A., 2011. The father-daughter dance: The relationship between father–daughter relationship quality and daughters' stress response. US: American Psychological Association.
Hoffman, M. L., Michigan, U., 2011. Father absence and conscience development. United States: American Psychological Association.
Pougnet, E., Schwartzman, A. E., Serbin, L. A., Stack, D. M., 2011. Fathers' influence on children’s cognitive and behavioral functioning: A longitudinal study of Canadian families. Canada: US: Educational Publishing Foundation.
Rohner, R. P., & Veneziano R. A., 2001. The importance of father love: History and contemporary evidence. United States: Educational Publishing Foundation.
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