role of the father

Question 1

what are the three main arguments for the role of the father?

Answer 1

• men are not equipped biologically to form attachments
• they provide a playment role
• fathers can take on the primary caregiver sensitivity needs

Question 2

Whats the biological argument for role of the father?

Answer 2

Women has oestrogen - underlies caring so is biologically suited attachments

• fathers lack this

Question 3

Schaffer and emmerson role of the father

Answer 3

Have a more secondary role
* 3% infants has father as sole attachment
* 27% joint

but after 18mths 75% formed a secondary attachment to the father

Question 4

Grossman study

Answer 4

longitudinal study into parents behaviour and its effects into adolscent

Mother attachment - more important with emotional development

Role of father - play highlhting they have a distinct role of play and stimulation rather than emotional and nurturing

Question 5

Field

Answer 5

Observed infants face to face interactions of
* primary fathers
* secondary fathers
* primary mothers

found fathers had the play role
* able to take on sensitive

Question 6

limitations

Answer 6

• confusion over research question
  lack of clarity some focus on priamry some on secondary - hard to compare answers
• lack of temporal validity - field study / societal attitudes have shifted

Question 7

strengths

Answer 7

• verisimo - fathers needed for socialisation in pre-school those strong sttachment with father ^ ability to make friends
• economic - equal paternity pay reduce economic productivity ^ infant experience
• condifence for same -sex couples (field) but schaffer and emmerson socially sensitive
• HRDY found fathers unable to detect stress - evidence for the biological reasoning