It is not enough for fathers to only have high marital intimacy, he needs to be a ‘good parent’ because when the quality of the relationship between the father and child is good there seems to be benefits to the child
For instance, Verissimo et Al (2011) found a significant positive correlation between the quality of the gather and the number of friends their child had at pre-school
This suggests that there needs to be high quality relationship for these social skills to fully develop
