Until your book, the majority of literature focused on how mothers influenced their children. Why has the fathers role in raising his children especially sons been largely ignored?
There are many reasons why fathers had become the “forgotten parent.” Despite the apparent timelessness of the father-son bond — and more generally, the father-child connection a sense of its power and closeness have waxed and waned over time. In agrarian society, for instance, fathers were very involved in their childrens lives. Yet by the end of World War II, fathers were seldom thought of as contributing to their childrens healthy development. Instead, they were more notable for their absence, or for their destructive impact, as when they were abusive, neglectful, or dead. Effective fathers were not only absent from the popular imagination, but from the professional literature as well. Scholarly papers documenting mothers, motherhood, and a mothers impact on her children abounded; social scientists unwittingly devalued the fathers role, and research on fathers was scant. Our tendency to ignore or discount a fathers influence began to change in the 1970s for several reasons. With th
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