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A Father’s Love is Critical: Dad's Crucial Role in a Child's Healthy Development

Based on 36 studies from around the world involving more than 10,000 participants, researchers at the University of Connecticut, in Mansfield, concluded that a father’s love contributes as much—and sometimes more—to a child’s development as a mother’s love. The critical importance of fatherly love to a youngster’s healthy development provides added incentive for men to become more involved in nurturing child care.


Source: Society for Personality and Social Psychology

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