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Demographically, over 90% of the participants strongly agreed that fatherhood is crucial in our society. A little over 47% of fathers, that encouragement from the mothers of their children matters because of the obstacles they faced with finance, and their duties on the job. The final results of marital status statistics is over 80% married fathers, nine percent divorced, and six percent never married. One surprising statistic was 90% cohabitate with the mother and focal child (Glenn & Popenoe, 2006).

Across all aspects and various lenses of development it is evident that children from birth until adolescence require guidance. In contrast, some theorists such a Piaget suggest that children are vastly independent and do not require parental or adult assistance for majority of their development. However, theorists such as Vygotsky believe otherwise. As Vygotsky was discussed during lecture, his developmental theory surrounding the methods of which children learn was a main focus. Namely, the methods of which children learn with adult

Nice article. It was interesting to read that father's interact with their children more than their mothers. I do believe that mothers provide more emotional support than fathers but I do not think fathers spend more direct time. I do agree that they may explore play interactions differently from mothers. It is important that children gain exposure to stimulating environments because it is beneficial to their development. an environment where children are able to be active and at the same time use their senses to learn and adapt will increase their physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development. Also as parents interact and play with their kids they are able to form a close relationship with trust. The more interaction

Throughout this entire I have learned so much about men, and the variety of behaviors they possess in different social contexts. Out of all the ideas I learned I found one extremely important and interesting, father-child relationship. Specifically, the differences between a traditional and an involved dad. I always knew that not every parenting style was the same among fathers, and how some were more involved than others. I never thought there was a category of these two types of fathers. After breaking down each category, a lot of it made so much sense. The most important thing between the two was the emphasis on how the traditional dad tends to deflect the responsibility of parenting, while the involved dad has a committed

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In the 1950s, fathers were considered the breadwinners of the family, as a result, they were rarely home and when they were their role in the family was to discipline children. There wasn’t a drastic change in the messages of fatherhood from the 1950s to the 1960s. Although we began to observe fathers more actively involved in the caring of their children they were still not the primary caregivers. An example is the first episode of Leave it to Beaver in which Opie’s father is constantly trying to cheer Opie. This is an indication that fathers were beginning to be compassionate towards their children. The majority of children with absent mothers were raised by nannies while fathers continued to be the breadwinners. Nonetheless, the messages about fatherhood in the 1970s were different from the 50s and 60s in that single fathers began becoming the primary caregivers of their children—drifting away from the idea that women are the only sex capable of caring for children. The current media entertainment I consume certainly gives messages about fatherhood as well. Fathers are definitely involved with their children than has ever been portrayed on television before. Nonetheless, fathers tend to approach their daughters and sons differently. Fathers tend to be more gentle with their daughters and vice versa with their

Certainly, adults have closed their minds to ideas, thoughts, and feelings by what they have seen or heard. Nguyen says “I taught my son the face and name of the man who is president, along with a few negative words for him. That was wrong”. Instead, teaching children to empathize, listen and feel is more beneficial, even with opposing opinions on most matters.

In addition, in the traditional families the mother usually bore the sole responsibility of the child caring. Modern parents now share this responsibility together because of social and work constraints. However, holidays which are not common in the traditional family, allow them to spend quality time with their children. Moreover in many modern families the father becomes a house worker, to provide for the needs of his children. As the statistics shown in the United Kingdom in 2001, 155 000 fathers were stay home husbands. All in all, the emphasis on nurturing children can be seen in traditional and modern families, alike.

For hundreds of years, gender roles have been the barricade between men being perceived as the nurturing parent. Why is it that society has defined the fathers functions in a family as purely economic?

One of the reasons that fathers should get paid paternity leave is because it can be beneficial to the workplace. A lot of people wonder, “how can someone taking time off work actually help a company?” We must realize, it’s not an overnight benefit, it’s a benefit that will come over time in the long-run after a bond has been created with the employee. Covert says, “People feel their company is committed to them in the long-term, that their happiness and wellbeing is prioritized over short-term profit” (Covert). When fathers receive paid paternity leave, they feel like they can then

“Good Dads - Bad Dads” by Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. examines trends of father’s behaviors and attitude of parental responsibilities (1988). Previously, the father’s role had “an...exclusive emphasis on economic responsibilities which interfered with the day-to-day contact they had with their children” (Furstenberg 1988 : 196). He explains that it was the transition from rural to an industrial economy that began the revision of parental roles (Furstenberg 1988). This gave rise to “male liberation” “from the excessive burdens of the good provider role” and to the modern father (Furstenberg 1988 : 199). On the one hand, males have been freed to interact more fully in the family, and on the other hand, they have also been liberated from all family responsibilities (Furstenberg 1988). Furstenberg notes that “there is a growing trend toward fathers’ absence from families and the apparent unwillingness...to assume economic responsibilities for their support” (1988).

Whether a father came into being a single dad through the death of his wife/partner, abandonment of the child by the mother, imprisonment of the mother, whatever the situation, fathers have stepped up in their role as “daddy” in the lives of their children. Dads have taken a more active role in their children’s lives, whether it is attending school plays, track meets, football practices and games, cheerleading events, etc. Furthermore, being a dad does not mean that one has biologically fathered a child. There are many surrogate dads who have stepped into fatherhood by marriage or employment as a counselor or by adoption.

Another reason, why one generation can learn from another is because they both benefit each other in different ways. In “Tutors Teach Seniors”

Stephanie Coontz, director of research at the Council on Contemporary Families, we still live in a culture with deep embedded notion of what a father is, beyond just another set of hands, and men, women, and children cling to it. “The bad news for Dads is that despite

Most of people who grew up in 90s or early 20s, they grew up with the settings where dad is always breadwinner in the family, where they hold all the responsibility relates finance or any big decisions whereas mother would nurture the kids, and everyone else in the family, they take care of household works and keep the family together. Therefore, I believe many people still hold up the idea of a traditional family as a benchmark against modern marriage families. But somehow, I feel like both father and mother partake in raising a child together, today’s dads do a lot more child care and housework than dads of the early 90s, and moms work full-time and share child care. Moreover, both mom and dad fairy share child care and housework in equal ways.