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• Factors Affecting Parent-Child Relationships:

  • degree of sensitivity
  • type of attachment to own parents
  • marital intimacy
  • supportive co-parenting
• degree of sensitivity:

  Attachments are more secure when a parent is sensitive to their child needs
• type of attachment with own parents:

  a single fathers tend to form relationships with their kids similar to their relationship with their parents
• marital intimacy:

  the degree of intimacy the father has will affect the relationship
• supportive coparenting:

  the amount of support a father gives to the mother when parenting affects how close the relationship with the children will be
• studies: related to role of the father

  A) geiger

  B) playmates

  C) affectionate

  D) heightened

  E) hrdy

  F) emotional

  
• lucassen et al:

  higher levels of sensitivity are associated with secure father-child attachments, proves that sensitivity levels have an impact
• bernier and miljkovitch:

  single parent father attachements from ages 4-6 are similar to attachments they had with their fathers