Fathers Don't Mother and Mothers Don't Father: What Social Science Research Indicates about the Distinctive Contributions of Mothers and Fathers to Children's Development

Erickson, Jenet Jacob

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2519862

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“…, 2013). As suggested by the family literature, this case study shows that the exclusion of the father from the dynamics of power in the long term can generate imbalance between affective/care needs and ethical/responsibility issues (Scabini, 1995; Yaffe, 2020), hence generating dysfunctional patterns in the next generation (Erickson, 2015; Pakaluk and Price, 2020). This study shows that the prevalence of the affective/care over the ethical/responsibility dimension in the long term can generate a so-called enmeshed family (Olson, 2000).…”

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Caught in the spider's web: an investigation of dysfunctional behavioural patterns in a family firm

Ferrari

2022

JFBM

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PurposeDrawing on the theory of goal systems applied to family business this case study focuses on the interdependence between non-economic goals and family goals, in order to identify if and how achieving non-economic goals generates dysfunctional behavioural patterns for family members in the long term.Design/methodology/approachThis study used an inductive, 20-year longitudinal case-study based methodology.FindingsThis case study shows how the business family faces ethical/affective dimensions, struggling every day for a balance and often undermining the legitimisation and differentiation of its children. Findings show that the achievement of non-economic goals can occur to the detriment of family goals, such as by generating a dysfunctional system, specifically in business family adaptability.Research limitations/implicationsThe principal limitation is that this single case study evidently does not allow for complete generalization of the findings.Practical implicationsThis case study makes a contribution to alerting the family business system to the long-term risk they face in trying to simultaneously maintain both harmony/cohesion and ethics/responsibility. Practitioners and consultants are therefore called on to help family firm owners with adopting a strategic vision by considering possible long-term counterfinal (i.e. mutually incompatible) goals.Social implicationsSMEs are the most widespread type of firm in the world, and consequently dysfunctional behavioural patterns within business families represent a prominent socio-economical problem for policy makers and institutions.Originality/valueThis study shows that, in the long term, that which is perceived to be a desirable goal can transpire to be a dysfunctional pattern. In doing so, this research introduces a new point of view to the literature on goal systems in family business.

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Caught in the spider's web: an investigation of dysfunctional behavioural patterns in a family firm

Ferrari

2022

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“…Formerly, hypotheses on conservative family models-when childcare was mainly a maternal task-focused on a deficit approach, with the aim of assimilating fathers and mothers [5,6]. Current family research examines the specific contributions of mothers, fathers, and other caregivers to child and adolescent development [7]. New family models, including sexual-minority-parent families, are increasing [8] and not all of them may have father figures.…”

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The Father’s Part: A Pilot Evaluation of a Father-Centered Family Intervention Group in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Mestermann,

Kleinöder,

Arndt

et al. 2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Changes in parental roles have renewed the focus on a father’s involvement in an offspring’s psychological development. However, fathers are still under-represented in family research. There are only a few structured father-centered intervention programs in child and adolescent psychiatry. In a German population sample, a pilot father-centered family intervention program with n = 16 participants, conducted in person (n = 8) and online (n = 8), in a child and adolescent psychiatry inpatient/day clinic setting was evaluated by comparing paternal stress, PSE, and child-rated paternal competence in a pre–post design. Participating fathers showed significant decreases in child-related parenting stress (presence: p = 0.042, online: p = 0.047) and significant increases in PSE (p = 0.006/0.012). Parent-related stress and child-rated paternal competence were unaffected (p = 0.108/0.171; p = 0.167/0.101), while small-to-medium effect size measures pointed in the direction of our hypothesis (d = 0.48/0.36; d = 0.37/0.50). Participant satisfaction was higher in person than online (p = 0.008). As social and biological fathers have important influences on child and adolescent well-being and development, they should be included more frequently in prevention and intervention programs. Fathers seem to benefit from gender-specific intervention programs with regard to stress reduction, as well as experiencing competence- and PSE-increasing effects.

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Are Mothers and Fathers Interchangeable Caregivers?

Pakaluk

Price

2020

Marriage & Family Review

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Fathers Don't Mother and Mothers Don't Father: What Social Science Research Indicates about the Distinctive Contributions of Mothers and Fathers to Children's Development

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Caught in the spider's web: an investigation of dysfunctional behavioural patterns in a family firm

Caught in the spider's web: an investigation of dysfunctional behavioural patterns in a family firm

The Father’s Part: A Pilot Evaluation of a Father-Centered Family Intervention Group in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Are Mothers and Fathers Interchangeable Caregivers?

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