Week 10: Fathers and Finances

WEEK 10: Fathers and Finances

Since we had a short week, i thought I would just share some of the points I made in my father involvement paper. I found it very beneficial to write this paper with my family over thanksgiving break, i was able to kind of think of my dad and watch his interaction with me family again with this paper in mind!

1. Religious tendencies in father involvement: I thought that this was such an important point to express. Religion is such an important factor in a father’s developmental interaction with his children. This is mainly true because religion often involves ones moral values, including their family ideology. Even just taking into consideration whether a person is religious at all will tell you something about his tendencies to be involved in the lives of his children, both spiritually and culturally.

2. Ones understanding of the family system and family roles. As a husband becomes a father, he develops a new role in his life and his perception of the responsibilities that go along with that role determine his involvement in the lives and growth of his children.

3. Husband and wife/ mother and fathers relationship. Interaction with the children is often mistaken to be the sole responsibility of the mother because of her innate role of primary nurturer. However, depending upon the relationship of the father with the mother and their ability to divide responsibilities of teaching, according the child’s needs, the father can and should play just as significant of a role in the development of the child, as the mother does.

4. Time management and parental priorities. In the typical family system, the father or male in the mother father relationship is responsible for earning the money to support the family. I believe that the ability that the father has to manage his work and home schedule will determine the effectiveness of the time spent in the home.

5. Gender roles and sexual orientation within the family. As a child is growing and following the example of their parents, the presence of a male figure is essential for both a male child and a female child to understand the difference between themselves and the opposite sex in a respectful safe environment. If a child is unable to identify a difference between the man and a women, the child is more likely to have confusion and sexual frustration because of the lack of clarity and knowledge learn though observation.