Father's Level Of Interaction

Level of Interaction
Along with emotional affects, father’s affect the level of interaction a kid will display in their behavior. When a father is involved in a child’s life, it gives them confidence and ambition. A father has a way of making a child feel whole and complete. When a father is absent, kids lose the confidence they once had and they become more unsure about themselves. So, naturally having a father present in one’s life is more likely to give them a bigger sense of confidence and ambition.
Confidence
Go to any playground and listen to the parents. Who is encouraging kids to swing or climb just a little higher, ride their bike just a little faster, throw just a little harder? Who is encouraging kids to be careful? Mothers protect
and dads encourage kids to push the limits. Think about the last time you saw a little kid playing at the park. When a little kid finishes the monkey bars for the first time, what is their reaction? It’s always, “Daddy, I did it!” Ever since we were little kids, we have been searching for ways to impress our fathers. It could go from, “I got my Driver’s License” to “I got my first deer.” But no matter what it is, something inside of us craves a father’s praise. Daughters especially. Dobson (2012) continues his discussion on this topic by bringing up the point, “Daughters tend to be third in line for the attention of the man of the family. Fathers know intuitively that their boys require special attention, discipline, and leadership, but they are often unaware of how desperately their daughters also need them. Some dads apparently see this yearning for the affirmation among girls as the exclusive responsibility of mothers. The task of bringing up girls is often viewed by dads as “women’s work.” In the home, it may not even cross a father’s mind that he should take his daughter out on a date. But to the girl, this is just another way of making her feel special, which in the end gives her confidence.
Ambition
Along with confidence, a father’s presence helps a child have more ambition to do things in his or her life. Kids are said to do academically better if a father figure is in the home. Dobson (2012) continues this topic with a few things that a father’s presence does to a kid. These include:

-Girls whose fathers provide warmth and control achieve great academic success.
-Girls who are close to their fathers exhibit less anxiety and withdrawal behaviors.
-Parental connectedness is the number one factor in preventing girls from engaging in premarital sex and indulging in drugs and alcohol.
-Daughters who believe that their fathers care about them have significantly fewer suicide attempts and fewer instances of body disatisfication, depression, low self-esteem, substance abuse, and unhealthy weight.
-Girls with involved fathers are twice as likely to stay in school
-Girls with fathers or father figures feel more protected, are more likely to attempt college, and are less likely to drop out of college.
-Girls whose parents are divorced or separated before they turn twenty-one tend to have shorter life spans by four years.
-Girls with good fathers are less likely to seek male attention by flaunting themselves.
-Girls who live with their mothers and fathers (opposed to mothers only) have significantly fewer growth and development delays, and fewer learning disorders, emotional disabilities, and behavioral problems.
-Girls who live with their mothers only have significantly less ability to control impulses and delay gratification, and have a weaker sense of conscience about right and wrong.
-Both boys and girls do better academically if their fathers establish rules and exhibit affection.
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As you can see, a father has an everlasting influence on a child, depending on whether he was present in their lives, or not.
Sense of Security In people’s lives, they can feel that a father sets the tone of the home. When he is present, there is a sense of security and protection that they don’t normally feel with him absent. “Emotional security is one of the most important things you can provide for your children for them to grow and soar. Children who experience a pattern of responsive and consistent care from their parents and caregivers are more likely to develop a positive sense of self, of others and the world around them. They are then more likely to have self-confidence, trust others and explore and learn new situations. According to Nagle, emotionally healthy and secure children tend to perform better in school, build lasting, mutually respectful relationships more easily, and have coping skills that can help them through difficult times” (Bloom and Grow, n.d.).
Protection
The father is usually seen as the ‘protector’ and is more respected in the home. A young child who is trying to grow up in a harsh world, needs to have a father who is seen as the ‘powerful’ and ‘respected’ one, who gives them attention, which gives them a sense of security that they normally wouldn’t feel. Fathers set the feeling of what a home is. Fathers are the ones who interview his daughter’s dates, and make sure that your date is good enough for “Daddy’s Little Girl.” A father gives a girl the feeling of love and protection that no other man can replace. The father is the one who is supposed to protect her the most, and when he isn’t present in her life, the feeling of protection is gone.
“There's this whole idea that grew out of past research that dads really don't have direct effects on their kids, that they just kind of create the tone for the household and that moms are the ones who affect their children's development.
But here we show that fathers really do have a direct effect on kids, both in the short term and long term"(Claire Vallotton, 2016).
Stableness
Along with protection, a father gives the home a sense of stableness. When a father is present, the family feels complete. Especially in a young child’s life, they need a ‘daddy’. When a father is absent, the mother ends up having to be the provider of the family. When this happens, not only is the dad absent in the child’s life, but now the mother is forced to work and be away from the child also. A father makes a home stable not just financially, but emotionally stable as well. Kids need that ‘complete’ feeling a father gives in their life, in order to be emotionally stable in their life. In conclusion, a father is crucial in a child’s life. Father’s affect a child’s mental health, level of interaction, and sense of security. Every little kid needs a hero. Someone to look up to, and someone who they strive to become. It’s a father’s duty to be that hero. Having a father present is so important in people’s lives because they then can be emotionally healthy and stable, and become who they were meant to
become.

References

Bergland, C. (2016, July 16). Dad's Psychological Well-Being Impacts His Kids' Development.

Bloom and Grow: Developing a Sense of Security. (n.d.).

Capretto, L. (2013, July 13). 'Daddyless Daughters': How Growing Up Without A Father Affects A Woman's Standards And Choices

Dobson, J. C. (2012). Bringing up girls. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House.

Fiona Macrae for the Daily Mail. (2012, June 14). How absence of a loving father can wreck a child's life: New study shows relationship with both parents is crucial.

Rossman, S. (2017, June 13). Why Dads Matter, According To Science.