Attentiveness of mothers and fathers to their baby's cries

Donate-Bartfield, Evelyn; Passman, Richard H.

doi:10.1016/0163-6383(85)90003-7

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“…Supporting this claim, low paternal involvement has been linked to poor father-child interaction (Spelke, Zelazo, Kagen, & Kotelchuck, 1973), while high levels of involvement were related to elevated levels of fathers' responsiveness and emotional availability (Donate- Bartfield & Passman, 1985;Lovas, 2005;Volling et al, 2002). One of the few studies that has examined paternal behavior with ill children revealed that fathers of children with cystic fibrosis who were highly involved in childcare demonstrated more positive interactions with their children than did less involved fathers (Darke & Goldberg, 1994).…”

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Father–child and mother–child interaction in families with a child feeding disorder: The role of paternal involvement

Atzaba‐Poria

Meiri

Millikovsky

et al. 2010

Infant Mental Health Journal

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To date, research about feeding disorder (FD) has focused almost exclusively on the mother-child dyad, ignoring fathers' roles. The current study investigated father-child interactions with children having FD. The sample consisted of 67 children (1-3 years old) and their mothers and fathers. Thirty-four children, diagnosed with a nonorganic-based FD (FD group) and 33 children without an FD (control group) were matched for age, gender, birth order, and maternal education. Data were collected during home visits. Mothers were interviewed about their and the father's involvement in childcare. In addition, mother-child and father-child interactions were videotaped during play and feeding. Both mothers and fathers from the FD group experienced less positive parent-child interactions than did parents in the control group. Furthermore, mothers in the FD group reported greater maternal versus paternal childcare involvement than did control group mothers. Finally, FD group mothers exhibited more parental sensitivity than did fathers during feeing interactions; however, this difference was observed only when coupled with low paternal involvement. In families where fathers were highly involved, no difference was evident in paternal and maternal sensitivity. These findings highlight the importance of fathers' involvement, especially in families with children exhibiting an FD.

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Father–child and mother–child interaction in families with a child feeding disorder: The role of paternal involvement

Atzaba‐Poria

Meiri

Millikovsky

et al. 2010

Infant Mental Health Journal

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“…As we suggest below, paternal responsiveness also appears closely related to the amount of paternal responsibility for infant care and this in itself is determined by factors within the family. The lesson is that caretaking experience appears to facilitate parental responsiveness (Donate- Bartfield & Passman, 1985;Zelazo, Kotelchuck, Barber, & David, 1977). For example, fathers who become involved when infants are hospitalised interact more positively and appear to be less distressed by their infants' ill-health (Darke & Goldberg, 1994).…”

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Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

2003

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Although it is often assumed that men have an important influence on their children's development, the supportive evidence can be difficult to locate and summarize. In this paper, we analyse the evidence with respect to four emergent themes. First, men often appear to interact with their children less sensitively than mothers do, and many children thus appear to form closer attachments to their mothers than to their fathers. Second, the data also indicate that fathers may play specific and important roles, with men in some cultures having clearly defined roles as playmates to their children. Third, paternal play styles predict later socio-emotional development while paternal involvement seems to predict adult adjustment better than maternal involvement does. Such evidence suggests, fourth, that we need appropriate measures of fatherhood that are not simply borrowed from the study of motherhood.Thirty years ago, fathers were described as 'forgotten contributors to child development' (Lamb, 1975). Since then, men have been in and out of the research focus, but there is now a large database with which to assess the roles of men in families. For the past 15 years, more than 700 articles on fathers have been cited each year in the Psychological Abstracts database. Although we assess current research on the nature and importance of father-child relationships in this paper, therefore, we must acknowledge from the outset that a brief review can only sketch the broad outlines particularly as the study of fatherhood has become so complex and multi disciplinary. Readers are referred elsewhere for more complete summaries of the recent research (Day & Lamb, in press; Lamb, in press;Tamis-LeMonda & Cabrera, 2002). In the interest of simplicity and brevity, we confine our analysis to research on two-parent households.We argue here that, when two parents live with their children, fathers contribute to their children's development in important ways. Not only should we take men into account when studying families [as do the other papers in this special edition], but we should also consider

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“…Nonetheless the assembly of secure base relationships during infant and toddler years requires numerous behavioural transactions between the attached child and the attachment figure over an extended period of time. When the father is an active participant in the child's daily activities/routines, the child-father secure base relationship seems to benefit, suggesting that child-care experiences may facilitate the way fathers interpret and respond to their child's signals (Donate-Bartfield, & Passman, 1985;Frascarolo-Moutinot, 1994, cited in Lamb & Lewis, 2004. Even if the father has the capacity to be sensitive to the child's communicative signals, this capacity may not be exercised when fathers and their children interact only infrequently (e.g., Cox, Owen, Henderson, & Margand, 1992).…”

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The organization of children's secure base behaviour in two-parent Portuguese families and father's participation in child-related activities

Monteiro

Veríssimo²,

Vaughn

et al. 2009

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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Attentiveness of mothers and fathers to their baby's cries

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Father–child and mother–child interaction in families with a child feeding disorder: The role of paternal involvement

Father–child and mother–child interaction in families with a child feeding disorder: The role of paternal involvement

Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families

The organization of children's secure base behaviour in two-parent Portuguese families and father's participation in child-related activities

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