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father-child relationships  

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  • This entry discusses father-child relationships, which encompass interactions, thoughts, and emotions between a father and his children across the life span of both. Father-child relationships shape the development and life satisfaction of both fathers and children through direct effects of father-child contacts and through indirect effects such as fathers' economic provisions for children, the quality of the father's relationship with the child's mother, and children's peers' attitudes toward parental authority. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Father-Child Relationships]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/father-child_relationships

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