Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
- ISBN13: 9780767907378
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Product Description
Fathers have always parented differently than mothers. In Fatherneed, Dr. Kyle D. Pruett shows mothers and fathers why that difference is so important to a child’s physical, cognitive, and emotional development.
Drawing on more than two decades of highly acclaimed research at the Yale Child Study Center, and backed up by true stories from actual families, Fatherneed is the essential how-to guide for women and men who wish to promote engaged fa… More >>
Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child
A very repetitive book which is amazing in its poor scholarship and very selective interpretation of research. The intent of the author is to show us all how very, very important fathers are, and he takes this chant to an extreme that is almost humorous in its degree of excess. The generalizations he makes about fathers and how they interact with their children only are true in a minority of the families I know; in most families, there is a mixture of styles depending on the personalities of parents and children. In my own case, I don’t relate to his generalities at all, and don’t see his pronouncements reflected in my own family.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have read many books on the topic and this seems to talk directly to me. No mushy stuff, directly to the point. I also like the fact that it really challenges fathers to take more active role as everyday parent with children.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dr. Pruett deals with the essential need for fathering in a warm, thoughtful, easily readable form. A must read for all parents.
Rating: 5 / 5
In this book,so much can be learned about why our children end up doing the things they do, and having the self identity problems they have. I now see that fathers have a connection with their children, not only socially, but in a much deeper sence. This is a must read for all fathers!
Rating: 5 / 5
I think this book reflects a courageous effort, with a lot of hard work clearly involved, to repair the breach in fatherhood that has been created over the last several thousand years as men became increasingly focused on dominating other men for resources and controlling women, and, in the process, lost their access to their emotions and their confidence as fathers. The fact that the only power women have had has been as mothers has also unfortunately led them to let men be crowded out of parenting.
Mr. Pruett does a very good job showing how this breach can be repaired, and is being repaired, by many compassionate, caring, respectful Dads here in the last few decades.
As someone who grew up with a dominator type father, and has spent much of my life trying to survive without getting what I needed from father and working hard to overcome that harm, I highly recommend this book to mothers and fathers.
I also suggest that many men may benefit from psychotherapy to look at whether there is any harm or unmet need in their own relationships with their fathers that they have buried. I suspect that bringing that to the surface will allow you to be free enough to learn a new way to father your children.
Rating: 5 / 5