ao3 real world application>>>
- mothers feel pressured to stay at home and fathers feel pressured to focus on work over parenting because of the stereotypical view of mothers and father's roles.
- research into the role of father could be used to offer advice to adults/ parents -
- heterosexual parents - fathers are quite capable of becoming the primary attachment figures
- lesbian parent /single mother families - no father around doesn't affect the child's development
- … reduce his parental anxieties about the role of the father