traditionally fathers have been seen as playing a minor or limited role in the parenting of the children in previous generations. Schaffer and emerson’s 1964 study found that infants tend to become more attached to the mother first, and then form attachments With other figures, such as the father later, on usually by the age of 18 months in modern times, this is all changed. Mothers are far more likely to work (71.2%, working mothers in 2020, according to the office for National statistics) and stay at home fathers are on the increase with males compromising nearly 10% of those who care for their children lost. Their partner goes out to work 9% of single parents in the UK are male. All of the statistics demonstrate that fathers now have a significantly larger role in parenting than they did in the past, so it is important. We re-examine the role of the father in attachment.