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Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About The Parent We've Overlooked (2014)

by Paul Raeburn(Favorite Author)

3.38 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374710821 (ISBN13: 9780374710828)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: Paul Raeburn gathers the small amount of current research we have on fathers and their contributions to the health and well-being of their children. Spoiler alert--of course fathers matter! But researchers have been so focused on the mother/child relationship that the father/child research looks pretty anemic. In essence, mothers tend to reinforce behavior, teaching children by day to day repetition, while fathers tend to employ destabilizing play, which helps children learn to regulate their emotions and behavior whenever life throws them a curve ball. I would highly recommend this book to mothers, who may be inclined to take over most of the child-rearing in their family. There are many good reasons to keep fathers in the child-care loop. The author clearly states th... moreat there is no wrong way to construct a family. Children without fathers or male influences are not doomed. He simply hopes to bring attention to the lack of scientific study of the father/child relationship.
review 2: This book was okay. As a disclaimer, I'm a woman and I don't have any children. Part of my 'meh' about this book was the fact that I just don't understand where the author was coming from when writing this book. I've never, ever heard of anyone saying that fathers are useless and that they don't matter. I've never heard that. In fact, I've heard quite the opposite: that is, there's all those campaigns to get men to have more involvement because they do matter so much.Certainly, men have been barred from delivery rooms in the past and women do tend to get the children during divorce but no system is perfect. less

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