The majority of the literature devoted to parenting, which is mostly concerned with the role of fathers, has naturally been devoted to the positive effect that children are subjected to the presence of a male parent or a guardian. Increasingly, there is coming to be an appreciation of the importance of fatherhood to the man himself, however. It is not only children who gain so much when they have involved and engaged dads, but the same has occurred on the part of adults, where the studies have reported all this to be true, irrespective of the financial factor. It has been shown that the benefits of parenting in men are far-ranging, and the time the father spends with his children is quite gratifying and uplifting in most aspects.
Fathers can learn so much about a child when they take time with them both in quality and quantity, even though they usually have a different view of the world as a result of spending time together, that it is almost impossible to take it back. Although a lot has been documented about the psychological benefits that accrue to the child when the kid is associated with paternal love, recent studies are demonstrating the fact that a father also experiences the emotional connection that he has with the child (the basis of which is the so-called oxytocin, or the hormone of love).
Emotional gains that can be enjoyed through fatherhood can be directly associated with the involvement they will have in the lives of their children. Marjory Roberts published a report in Psychology Today in 1989 of a newly published longitudinal study of over 200 dads demonstrating that the experience of fatherhood was positive (psychologically speaking) in that it served as a vehicle to building more empathy and compassion.
This fact was in line with the theory of generativity, which was proposed by Erik Erikson, which assumed that until human beings brought about progress to the lives of children in one way or another, human beings could not be said to have reached their full maturity.
The positive aspect of the other good news about this study was that when men considered becoming fathers or increased their participation, their careers were not at any risk, as considered by many. Well, as numerous past studies had indicated, children did very well to have their dads.
The active involvement of a father made both the boys and the girls gain confidence, become more adult and independent as the study conducted by psychologists Joseph Pleck, John Snarey, and Anthony Maier established, the authors concluded that fatherhood was a win on both sides. According to Snarey, a role of the father is as crucial as it is the role of the mothe,r which many dads may have presumed about but were glad to hear at the same time.
Emotional Values of Fatherhood
The majority of the literature devoted to parenting, which is mostly concerned with the role of fathers, has been naturally devoted to the positive effect that children are subjected to the presence of a male parent or a guardian. Increasingly, there is coming to be an appreciation of the importance of fatherhood to the man himself, however. It is not only children who gain so much when they have involved and engaged dads, but the same has occurred on the part of adults, where the studies have reported all this to be true, irrespective of the financial factor. It has been shown that the benefits of parenting in men are far-ranging, and the time the father spends with his children is quite gratifying and uplifting in most aspects.
Fathers can learn so much about a child when they take time with them both in quality and quantity. Even though they usually have a different view of the world as a result of spending time together, it is almost impossible to take it back. Although a lot has been documented about the psychological benefits that accrue to the child when the child is associated with paternal love, recent studies are demonstrating the fact that a father also experiences the emotional connection that he has with the child (the basis of which is the so-called oxytocin, or the hormone of love).
Emotional gains that can be enjoyed through fatherhood can be directly associated with the involvement they will have in the lives of their children. Marjory Roberts published a report in Psychology Today in 1989 of a newly published longitudinal study of over 200 dads demonstrating that the experience of fatherhood was positive (psychologically speaking) in that it served as a vehicle to building more empathy and compassion. This fact was in line with the theory of generativity, which was proposed by Erik Erikson, who assumed that until human beings brought about progress to the lives of children in one way or another, human beings could not be said to have reached their full maturity.
The positive aspect of the other good news about this study was that when men considered becoming fathers or increased their participation, their careers were not at any risk, as considered by many had considered. Well, as numerous past studies had indicated, children did very well to have their dads. The active involvement of a father made both the boys and the girls gain confidence, become more adult and independent. As the study conducted by psychologists Joseph Pleck, John Snarey, and Anthony Maier established, the authors concluded that fatherhood was a win on both sides. According to Snarey, a role of the father is as crucial as it is the role of the mother, which many dads may have presumed about but were glad to hear at the same time.
Such research was supported by the anecdotal evidence provided by a retired professor of philosophy, Richard Taylor. In 1987, Taylor was 67 years old and his son was 39 years old and had a baby boy of a year old; that is, a span of nearly 40 years between children and it was this experience that gave the man an opportunity to gauge the extent to which fatherhood had changed right in the guts of the older dads.
Taylor went to classes, and he was with his new son when he was bor,n unlike what he had in 1948 with his first child. Earlier on, he had confessed that he was in the dark on simple infant care of his new son, which his very young wife found outrageous since he was not the first man to bring a child up.
In the case of Taylor, this could be described as a very modified form of having a child at an older age, which is quite common among older fathers (me included). When he was a younger man, the professor was deeply involved in his work and social life, but here he had the opportunity, as he says, to devote all his time to his wife and baby.
And the absence of any possibilities of a competing interest coupled with the wisdom of experience was serving a new and different love between him and his baby boy (to whom he partially named Aristotle), a love that Taylor could simply describe as fulfillment. And the psychological advantages of being given pure, unmixed love by a child were abundantly described, but there was, at any rate, not a great deal that had been written about the rewards of giving the same sort of love to the child in return; and that was the thing that Taylor found to be such a self-transformation experience.
Such stories are supported by neuroscientific research associated with fatherhood. Neural revitalization of fathers takes place when men turn into fathers, and it is advantageous to their children because both the babies and the dad’s brain are forever altered in the few days after birth, as Brian Mossop was quoted as emphasizing in Scientific American Mind in 2011. There is also a biochemical bond between fathers and their children which gets developed within a short period, just like the bond between mothers and fetuses during pregnancy.
To be more precise, the brain of dads is preconditioned to react to any factor that threatens the comfort and lives of their infants, and this is only one of the many ways how oxytocin influences early fatherhood. The brains of fathers and infants. Neuroscientists are learning, work in symbiosis, each party gaining in a certain manner by the cognitive power of the other. It is even demonstrated that after making babies, men develop fresh, new, extra neurons to be able to connect emotionally, which in the long run will reap some benefits in the life of the child.
Supposing that suggestion of a form of cognitive symbiosis is not impressive enough, the human brain of a father will normally adjust its hormonal secretions and brain activity according to his specific parenting roles. According to a 2014 study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the brain pattern of Dads can fluctuate between one that is socially bonding and alert and another used in planning and thinking, modifying the output depending on the circumstances.
Nurture is not nothing in parenting, but just as in many more activities, it is nature that researchers are finding inclines a person toward a particular behavior. The issue of being a good parent, which this research studies, is therefore strongly dependent on the way the brain has been wired, and in this regard, 1US challenges a lot of what we have subscribed to as the way to be a good father. We are entering a new frontier of knowing much about fathering. Though fatherhood has been with us just as long as man has existed, there is no doubt about exciting adventures that are going to be ahead of us.