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Fatherhood Influence On Child Development

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It has been well documented that parent-child play has an important influence on child development, and it is commonly used in early childhood as a predictive measure of child language development (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Early Child Care Research Network, 2000; Tamis-LeMonda, Bornstein, & Baumwell, 2001; Clarke-Stewart, Vandell, Burchinal, O’Brien, & McCartney, 2002; Tamis‐LeMonda, Shannon, Cabrera, & Lamb, 2004; Ginsburg, 2007; Tamis-LeMonda, Baumwell, & Cabrera, 2013). During their early developmental years, especially before they enter into a school setting, children receive most of their verbal stimulation in the home from their caretaker(s). It is assumed in many instances due to culturally influenced …show more content…

This could be as a result of the changing family structures or societal norms; more fathers are actively involved in their young children’s daily lives or researchers realizing that fathers have always been more influential on their children’s development than they have previously been credited. So far, research on father-child interaction has been predominately focused on the amount of father presence in the home, studying how much time do fathers spend meaningfully interacting with their children rather than the quality of those interactions (Cabrera, Ryan, Shannon, Brooks-Gunn, Vogel, Raikes, Tamis-LeMonda, et al., 2004; Furstenberg, & Harris, 1993; Lamb, 2010; Seltzer, & Bianchi, 1988). In the few studies that have looked at quality of father interaction, there is a relation between quality of father-child play and language development, cognitive outcomes, and behavior (Tamis-LeMonda, et al., 2004; Anderson, Roggman, Innocenti, & Cook, 2013; Malin, Cabrera, & Rowe, 2014; Cabrera, Karberg, Malin, & Aldoney, 2017). The goal of my future study is to take this research a step further and focus not on the qualitative aspect of father-child play but study the quality of father language input quantitatively to potentially establish a causal relationship between quality of father language input and the development of the child’s receptive

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