Paternal Attachment Behavior as Related to Presence at Delivery and Preparenthood Classes

Bowen, Sheila M.; Miller, Brent C.

doi:10.1097/00006199-198009000-00010

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“…Note, however, that in this context the mother-infant attachment builds on heritable differences in sensitivity to isolation rather than the pain of isolation resulting from poor infant attachment behaviors by the mother. The forces of attachment are not limited to mother-infant relations, either, as paternal attachment (Bowen & Miller, 1980) and romantic attachment between partners (Howard, 2010) are observed in humans, as well.…”

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Evolutionary mechanisms for loneliness

Cacioppo

Boomsma

2013

Cognition and Emotion

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Robert Weiss (1973) conceptualized loneliness as perceived social isolation, which he described as a gnawing, chronic disease without redeeming features. On the scale of everyday life, it is understandable how something as personally aversive as loneliness could be regarded as a blight on human existence. However, evolutionary time and evolutionary forces operate at such a different scale of organization than we experience in everyday life that personal experience is not sufficient to understand the role of loneliness in human existence. Research over the past decade suggests a very different view of loneliness than suggested by personal experience, one in which loneliness serves a variety of adaptive functions in specific habitats. We review evidence on the heritability of loneliness and outline an evolutionary theory of loneliness, with an emphasis on its potential adaptive value in an evolutionary timescale.

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Section: Possible Evolutionary Mechanisms For Lonelinessmentioning

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Evolutionary mechanisms for loneliness

Cacioppo

Boomsma

2013

Cognition and Emotion

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“…The research on fatherhood published in the health literature addresses similar concerns to the more researched field of motherhood. For example, father–infant attachment ( Bowen & Miller 1980, Mercer & Ferketich 1990), fathers' involvement in infant care ( Rustia & Abbott 1993, Tiedje & Darling‐Fisher 1993), their sensitivity to infant cues ( Graham 1993) and the influences of the fathers' attitudes to breast feeding on the female partners' decision to breast feed ( Littman et al . 1994 ) have all received attention.…”

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The experiences of new fatherhood: a socio‐cultural analysis

Barclay

Lupton

1999

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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For most men, first-time fatherhood involves significant changes in self-identity and their relationship with their female partner. This paper presents some findings from a longitudinal, qualitative study into the first 6 months of new fatherhood for a group of 15 Australian men. The discussion draws on a series of semistructured interviews undertaken on a minimum of four occasions from a few days before the child was born until 5-6 months after birth. We found that first-time fathering in contemporary western society requires men to be simultaneously provider, guide, household help and nurturer. The demands of these roles, and the tensions they sometimes produce, challenge men's relationships with their female partners, the meaning and place of work in their lives and their sense of self as competent adults. Almost all the men we interviewed found the early weeks and months of fatherhood more uncomfortable than rewarding, despite looking forward to fatherhood very positively. Their experience appeared more closely aligned to their difficulties with meeting social expectations and roles rather than individual deficits.

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“…Most previous studies of the father's presence during labor tended to focus on maternal outcomes, eg, the amount of analgesic used in labor (4,5), the effect of the father's presence at birth on the subsequent paternal‐infant relationship (6–10), or the effect of the father's having participated in childbirth education on the ensuing paternal‐infant relationship (11–13), but not on the experience of the father himself. Overall, the results from these studies have been equivocal, in part because of the small samples, but also because of problems with both design and the statistical analyses used.…”

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