Faml blog #10
The peer reviewed article I chose to review for this blog post on bother
relationship to children is the following;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415916/
This
study includes 2,970 U.S. families who participated in the Fragile Families and
Child Well-Being Study. The father involvement at age 1, and child reports of
father-child relationship quality at age 9.
Involvement
with fathers during childhood was positively associated with the father-PGF
relationship at child age 1, which in turn was associated with greater father
involvement at age 1. More father involvement at age 1 was associated with
child reports of better father-child relationships at age 9. The pathways from
PGF involvement during fathers’ childhood and father-PGF relationships at age 1
to father-child relationship quality at age 9 were fully mediated by father
involvement at age 1.
During
this study 50% of the children studied were of non Hispanic-black population. 25%
were up Hispanic population with non-Hispanic white being 20%.
The
conclusion that was derived from the study was that Patterns of father involvement and the quality of father-child
relationships tend to be passed down across generations. To ensure active,
positive father involvement and its associated benefits for children, parenting
interventions should focus promoting positive fathering behaviors to promote
positive relationships with children in their own and future generations.
I've found this to follow my lifestyle also as I'm at the age of 76 and
have a son that is 56 years old.
my lifestyle had a father that was not involved with his children. Like
in the study he was supportive in monetary factor raising as children but was
not involved in our life. This was done by my mother who did all the rearing
and responsibilities for child raising. It must be pointed out that at my age I
was growing up during the 1950s and my lifestyle at that time would not seem to
be able to be correlated to today's society.
I spent most of the year with my aunt and uncle growing up on their
farm. I consider them to be more of my parents than I my actual parents. this
was shown by my uncle taking direct interest in my hobbies and how I was being
taught while under his care. I could feel the direct interest that he had
towards me compared to my own father.
when I had my own child, I was interested in becoming a better father
figure for him. However in detriment to this was the fact that it was just back
out of the Vietnam conflict being a Sergeant in the Marine Corps. Because of
that I still had that military attitude towards leadership. I found like in
this study I was a father figure that provided financial means and did not take
a direct part in his early upbringing. this was caused M part by the fact that
I was served in Vietnam from when he was eight months old until the time he was
22 months old. This was a critical child development stage when I was
considered a remote father providing the financial support but not being able
to be there for him. It was not until he reached teenage years when change
occurred.
Because his mother and I divorced
when he was 15 years old. He elected to stay with me which put the folding
mands of raising a 15 year old son on my part. There was no financial support
from his mother due to divorce decree. that's like any single parent I was
required to work full time and to try to raise a somewhat rebellious 15 year
old son. There are times like any normal father son relationship where he did
not feel like he should follow what either parent wanted him to do. This to is
a normal growing pains 4 and a child where they start questioning the guidance
and life of what the parent is saying and doing.
he is now 56 years old and we have a good relationship. I do not get to
see him and his wife as much as I would like to because of the distance between
where they live and myself (they live in Canada).
It
would seem that this study confirms that a active involvement by the father
towards his young child is needed and it will carry through the next
generation. my life has resembled parts of this study where you have the father
provided providing financial support but yet not being actively involved with
the child. Because of the lifespan that I have had I have been able to note the
differences that can be achieved when the father takes an active role in the
life of the child beyond providing financial support.
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