Father-Daughter Relationships

Paper Summary:

The paper explains that the bond that a daughter has with her father is very important because of the understanding of men and relationships that she gets from this particular relationship. The paper examines the potential consequences of divorce. The paper discusses how forcing children to stay in the same house with the parent they are not closest to after the divorce can often cause unhappiness and rebellion. The paper also looks at the effects of a father dying and relates that this does not not seem to be as severe and lasting as the effect of a father leaving the marriage.

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"How a parent and child interact when the child is young can have serious consequences for the child later in life as he or she grows into an adult and potentially has children of his or her own. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the relationship that a father has with his daughter. Daughters often look up to their fathers and when they are older they look for men like their fathers to marry. If their father is a good man, this is a good thing, but if their father is not a good person the daughter can end up as an adult in a bad or abusive relationship with a man because she feels as though that is 'the way it should be' because it is 'the way that her father treated her and her mother.'"

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ahrons, C.R. & Tanner, J.L. (2003) Adult children and their fathers: Relationship changes 20 years after parental divorce. Family Relations, 52: 340-351.
• Gilbert, Beth. (2001). Helping children cope with grief. Drkoop.com. <http://www.childrens grief.com/koop/>.
• McDowell, Urvia, and Futris, Ted G. (2001). The impact of parental death on children. Ohio State University. <http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm01/pdf/FS11.pdf>.
• Nakonezny, P.A., Rodgers, J.L., & Nussbaum, J.F. (2003). The effect of later life parental divorce on adult-child/older-parent solidarity: A test of the buffering hypothesis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 33: 1153-1178.
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