Fathers and infants
✍ Scribed by Hiram E. Fitzgerald; Tammy Mann; Marguerite Barratt
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
The authors provide a brief overview of historical definitions of father's caregiving role and describe historical themes addressed in studies of the impact of fathers' on their infants and young children. The authors suggest six themes that not only are descriptive of contemporary research with fathers, but also represent an agenda for guiding research and clinical studies of fathers during the opening decade of the 21st century: (1) focus on direct assessment of fathers' parenting behavior, rather than relying on maternal report, (2) focus on the effects of father presence on early child development, rather than the effects of his absence, (3) focus on individual differences among fathers, including within-culture and cross-cultural determinants of fathering and their impact on child outcomes, (4) focus on the father's role in gender socialization, (5) focus on conceptualizing family as more than a dyad, regardless of whether a biological or social father is part of the family unit, and (6) focus on inclusion of fathers in psychotherapeutic interventions involving families with infants and young children.
RESUMEN: Los autores proveen una breve visio ´n general de las definiciones histo ´ricas del papel que los padres han tenido en cuanto al cuidado del infante, y describen temas histo ´ricos que se tocan en estudios sobre el impacto de los padres en sus infantes e hijos pequen ˜os. Los autores sen ˜alan seis temas que no so ´lo son descriptivos de la investigacio ´n contempora ´nea sobre los padres, sino que tambie ´n representan una agenda para guiar la investigacio ´n y los estudios clinicos de los padres durante la primera de ´cada del siglo veintiuno: 1) enfoque en evaluaciones directas de la conducta paternal en la crianza, en vez de confiar en reportes maternos; 2) enfoque en los efectos de la presencia del padre, en vez de en los efectos de su ausencia en el temprano desarrollo del infante; 3) enfoque en las diferencias individuales entre los padres, incluyendo determinantes intra e interculturales de crianza paternal y su impacto en los infantes; 4) enfoque en el papel del padre en la socializacio ´n de los sexos; 5) enfoque en la conceptualizacio ´n de la familia como algo ma ´s que una diada, sin tomar en cuanta si un padre biolo ´gico es parte de la unidad familiar; y 6) enfoque en la inclusio ´n de los padres en las intervenciones sicoterape ´uticas que tratan a familias con infantes y nin ˜os pequen ˜os.
RE ´SUME
´: Les auteurs des articles qui suivent dans ce nume ´ro spe ´cial nous pre ´sentent un survol des de ´finitions historiques du ro ˆle de parentage du pe re et de ´crivent les the mes historiques aborde ´s dans des e ´tudes de l'impact des pe res sur leurs be ´be ´s et leurs jeunes enfants. Les auterus sugge rent six the `mes qui sont
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