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Hill-Holliday, Karen. "Father-Daughter Attachment and Sexual Behavior in African-American Daughters." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1908.
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Although a relationship has been found in some studies between paternal attachment and female sexual behavior, knowledge of this relationship in African Americans has been limited. The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a relationship between father-daughter attachment, parent teen sexual risk communication and early sexual activity, condom use, history of sexually transmitted infection, global/sexual self-esteem and teen pregnancy in African-American females. An anonymous consent and survey was administered online to N=113 African American college women (age 18-21) attending a southeastern university. Measurements included the Parent Attachment Questionnaire (Father), Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem, Sexual Self-Esteem Inventory (short scale), the PTSRC and a sexual history. Findings of high levels of father attachment were found in this mostly middle class sample but neither attachment nor parent teen sexual risk communication was related to age of vaginal/oral initiation, condom use or sexually transmitted infections. However, attachment was predictive of global self-esteem. In addition, those with a high level of attachment were 1.0 times more likely to also have a positive pregnancy test history when maternal support for the father–daughter relationship was low. No relationship was found between sexual self-esteem and paternal attachment or between sexual self-esteem and condom use. Paternal monitoring was associated with older ages of vaginal initiation. Conclusion: Higher paternal attachment coupled with paternal monitoring may facilitate global self-esteem and be a protective factor against early sexual initiation (vaginal). Fathers are in need of education as to how to stay connected with daughters and to engage in direct and indirect sexual risk communication. Nevertheless, prevention strategies utilizing fathers could be effective in delaying onset of sexual activity. This document was originally created in Microsoft Word 2000 and later modified in Microsoft Word 2007 (compatibility mode). SPSS 17.0 statistical software was used for analysis and N-Query 6.0 was utilized for power analysis.
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Hadaway, Hannah L. "Dads and daughters." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
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Sheldon, Barbara H. "Daughters and fathers in feminist novels /." Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Paris [etc.] : P. Lang, 1997. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb370405298.
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Teter, Rebecca E. "Knowing God as Father case studies of women of faith who overcame difficult relationships with human fathers /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Rafus, Eboni G. "My father's daughter." Connect to this title, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/159/.
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Hanes, Lisa Emmeluth. "Beyond the Dutiful Daughter: An Examination of the Role and Representation of Daughters in the Renaissance." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002588.
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Jamieson, Nicole Laura. "Daughters' relationships with nonresidential fathers: an exploratory investigation." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/6863.
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This qualitative thesis study investigates daughters' experiences of relationships with nonresidential fathers following parental separation, the supportive and difficult aspects of these relationships, and daughters' perceptions of the impact of the relationship on themselves and their sense of wellbeing. The study also investigates experiences external to relationships with fathers that impact on this relationship, including other relationships within the separated family. The study includes two projects, a questionnaire study and an interview study. The questionnaire study was designed to collect information about daughters' experiences of relationships post-separation. Fifty-five young adult women, who had parents that had separated during their childhood or adolescence, completed the questionnaire. Sixteen of these participants also took part in the second project, the interview study. The interviews gathered in-depth data about the participants' relationships with their fathers pre- and post-separation, including current relationships. Thematic analyses were conducted on the data from the two projects. Most participants described both supportive and unsupportive aspects of relationships with nonresidential fathers in the years following parental separation. A common experience that emerged across both studies was a sense of loss that occurred within the father-daughter relationship. This included a loss of contact and for some, a perceived loss of fathers' interest and involvement in their lives. Some experienced difficulties in communicating with fathers, or superficiality in the relationship. Some daughters attributed distance in relationships with fathers to the father's personal problems, while others attributed the distance to changes in the fathers' lifestyle and loss of interest in daughters. Subsequently, some participants described feelings of rejection and resentment towards fathers. On the other hand, some participants were positive about fathers who were perceived to remain actively involved in their lives, demonstrating interest and affection to them. Participants also identified contextual factors that supported or created barriers to relationships with nonresidential fathers. These concerned practical considerations, including geographical proximity, fathers' work commitments, and living arrangements. For some participants, the quality of relationships between separated parents also appeared to impact relationships with fathers. This included ongoing inter-parental conflict and the impact of visitation arrangements. Fathers' repartnering also appeared to impact some participants relationships with fathers, either positively or negatively. Finally, some participants perceived that mothers had affected their relationships with fathers, such that mothers' support could enhance the nonresidential father-daughter relationship, and mothers difficulties with the nonresidential father could impact negatively on the daughters' feelings towards fathers or feelings about spending time with them. The implications of the results for separating families are discussed along with future research directions.Whole document restricted until September 2012, but available by request, use the feedback form to request access.
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Batorowicz, Beata Agnieszka, and n/a. "Undoing Big Daddy Art: Subverting the Fathers of Western Art Through a Metaphorical and Mythological Father/Daughter Relationship." Griffith University. Queensland College of Art, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040319.090547.
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The canon of Western art history provides a selection of artists that have supposedly made an 'original' contribution to stylistic innovation within the visual arts. Although a process of selection cannot be avoided, this procedure has resulted in a Eurocentric and patriarchal art canon. For example, the Western art canon consists of certain white male artists who are given exclusive authority and are often referred to as the 'fathers of art'. As the status of a 'father of art' pertains to the highest level of achievement within artistic creativity, I argue that this excellence in creativity is based on a gender specific criteria. This issue refers to the patrilineage within Western art history and how this father-son model, in a general sense, excludes women artists from the canon. Further, the very few women included in the art canon are not given the equivalent status as a 'father of art'. I address this patriarchal bias through focussing on the father/daughter relationship as a way of challenging the patrilineage within Western art historys patrilineage. Through this process of intervention, I position the daughter an assertive figure who directly confronts the fathers of Western art. Within this confrontation, I emphasise that the daughter has an assertive identity that is also beyond the father. On this premise my paper is based on the argument that the application of a father/daughter model, within a metaphorical and mythological sense, is useful in subverting the father figures within Western art history. That is, I construct myself as the metaphorical and mythological daughter of the Dada artist, Marcel Duchamp and the Fluxus artist, Joseph Beuys. As an assertive daughter, I insert myself into the patriarchal framework surrounding these two canonical figures in order to decentre and subvert their authority and phallocentric art practice. It is important to note that both Duchamp and Beuys are addressed as case studies (not as individual arguments) that illustrate the patriarchal constructs of the art canon. Within this premise, I draw upon the female artists Sherrie Levine and Jana Sterbak who directly subvert Western father figures as examples of assertive daughter identities. Within this exploration of the assertive daughter identity, I discuss feminist psychoanalysis (particularly the 'object relations' theorist Nancy Chodorow and the French feminist, Luce Irigaray) in order to offer metaphorical representations of the assertive daughter. These metaphors also assist in subverting the gender (male) specific criteria for creativity under the 'law of the father'.
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Igboemeka, Adeze. "Writing on the father's tomb, hysteria and the father-daughter relationship in contemporary French women's writing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ53741.pdf.
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Roiter-Eash, Jane. "An exploratory study of fathers and adult daughters perceptions of their relationship." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1997. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/roiter-eash_1997.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1997.A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Washle, Edwin J. "Fathers and young-adult children : factors affecting relationship strength /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-135908/.
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Brigden, Susy. "Mary Carpenter : her father's daughter?" Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.548319.
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Murante, Jessica L. "Wish you were here /." Full text available online, 2006. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/find/theses.
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Yaxley, Meika J. "Perceived fatherly affirmation and father-daughter bond: their influence on young women's self-esteem, body-image esteem and adult attachment style /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19212.pdf.
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Sokal, Laura. "Mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters, gender schematicity in the family context." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0018/NQ53079.pdf.
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Gonda, Caroline Jane. "Fathers and daughters in novels from Eliza Haywood to Mary Brunton." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304031.
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Plumb, Caroline Victoria. "Fathers' experiences of their adult daughters' anorexia nervosa : a qualitative study." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.504718.
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Caring for a loved one with anorexia nervosa has been demonstrated to be a stressful experience. There is a growing literature attempting to understand the experiences of parents who are carers; however, to date the views of fathers have been underexplored relative to those of mothers. In addition, theories of AN discuss or imply the importance of interpersonal factors, but have progressed without sufficient data on the involvement of fathers. This study sought to explore the experiences of fathers caring for a daughter with AN, using a qualitative approach. Method: A constructivist grounded theory methodology (Charmaz, 2006) was used to generate a new explanatory model from fathers' descriptions of their experiences, whilst openly considering the influence of context. Ten fathers were interviewed about their experiences caring for an adult daughter with AN; nine were recruited from a specialist regional eating disorder unit and one was recruited via a voluntary organisation, b-eat. Results: Fathers from the unit reported being involved in care-giving, and experiencing significant levels of distress, on a par with what has previously been reported for mothers. Fathers' distress appeared particularly linked to their daughter's loss of ability to reason clearly, leading her to resist family and expert treatment advice. This distress was associated with fathers' models of AN as a mental illness involving a failure of logic, which appeared heavily influenced by the unit's prevailing 'medical model'. In contrast, the father from b-eat viewed AN as a struggle with control and resisted hospital authorities. He was distressed at being left out while his wife did most of the care-giving. All fathers expressed significant distress, but also concealed or minimized their emotional experiences, either more or less deliberately. Conclusion: Since some fathers are highly involved in caring for daughters with AN, clinicians should not assume this role is adopted predominantly by mothers. Fathers regularly conceal the extent of their emotional distress, and may require special consideration by services to enable them to be more candid. Fathers' methods of involvement in care-giving appear derived from the model of AN they adopt, so it is important to understand fathers' illness beliefs and to include fathers' perspectives in theories of care-giving and of AN. Since fathers initially feel ignorant of AN and are very anxious, they can be heavily influenced by the views of those regarded as experts. This has consequences for the way they attempt to help their daughters recover, which has the danger of forming part of an emotionally invalidating system involving the family and services. A systemic perspective on adult AN appears important if the best care is to be delivered.
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Simões, Andrea Cristina Natal. "The portrayals of fathers and daughters in Mary di Michele's poetry." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFSC, 2012. http://repositorio.ufsc.br/xmlui/handle/123456789/93970.
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Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-25T05:10:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 282991.pdf: 852685 bytes, checksum: b2441d22c2f8cdd9ed3d19508571de7c (MD5)
Esta dissertação analisa a poesia da escritora ítalo-canadense Mary di Michele focando nos retratos de pais e filhas. O relacionamento entre pai e filhas revela dois dilemas. O primeiro dilema é caracterizado pela aceitação ou rebelião por parte das filhas em relação ao tradicional papel patriarcal do pai. O segundo dilema é caracterizado pela sustentação ou abandono das tradições italianas numa nova terra. O objetivo desta dissertação é analisar os poemas de di Michele que retratam o papel do pai e das filhas em famílias italianas de tradição patriarcal observando como o deslocamento cultural causa um choque em tradições sócio-culturais, como o patriarcado. Para atingir esse objetivo, os conceitos de patriarcado e entre-cultura são discutidos no primeiro capítulo desta dissertação juntamente com uma revisão crítica da relevante literatura sobre o trabalho de di Michele. Nesta seção alguns autores cujos trabalhos eu discuto são: Adrienne Rich, Angelika Bammer, Fred Wah, Gloria Anzaldúa, James Clifford, Judith Bennet, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Walby e Smaro Kamboureli. O segundo capítulo analisa como o retrato do pai e sua conduta patriarcal irão influenciar na criação das filhas. O terceiro capítulo analisa como as filhas são retratadas para compreender a posição delas de manter ou abandonar as tradições de seu pai como conseqüência do deslocamento. O quarto capítulo analisa como questões de gênero e de cultura da criação das filhas influencia as escolhas de vida delas, especialmente as escolhas de parceiros. Essa dissertação conclui que o pai é retratado de forma opressiva e autoritária caracterizando uma sociedade patriarcal de opressão emocional. O comportamento dele não o leva a felicidade, alívio do cansaço, ou satisfação em relação às escolhas das filhas. As escolhas de vida das filhas refletem uma crítica sobre família e condições de casamento por causa delas sentirem-se desconfortáveis com os parceiros que elas escolheram; o que as leva a viver submissivamente infelizes como escravas dos maridos ou a subverter as normas patriarcais revoltando-se contra elas.
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Miller, Adena B. K. "Adult daughters of parental divorce : constructing current relationships with nonresidential fathers." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31675.
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In Canada, divorce is an important individual and societal issue. With 38% of all marriages projected to end in divorce before their 30th wedding anniversary (The Vanier Institute of the Family, 2004) and half of all divorces involving dependent children (Statistics Canada, 2005) it is not surprising that the short and long term repercussions of experiencing parental divorce is of concern to researchers, practitioners, and families alike. Previous research has suggested that experiencing divorce can have a wide array of consequences on close relationships (Amato, 2003), one of which is parent - child relationships. Divorce has the potential to impact parent - child relationships throughout the life course for both children and their parents (Booth & Amato, 1994; Cooney & Uhlenberg, 1990; Lye, Klepinger, Hyde, & Nelson, 1995; Zill, Morrison, & Coiro, 1993). Consequentially, the importance of understanding parent - child relationships within the biographical context of parental divorce, and their entire relational history, is becoming increasingly apparent. The present study examines whether a model of parent - child interactions within the context of the entire relationship outlined by Lollis and Kuczynski (1997) is useful in examining and understanding the current adult daughter - nonresidential father relationship. In order to accomplish this, interviews were conducted with 9 women who experienced parental divorce in childhood and who were between the ages of 19-24 at the time of interview. Analysis borrowed from a biographical (Rosenthal, 2004) and grounded theory approach (Glaser & Strauss, 1967; Strauss & Corbin, 1994). Results indicate the presence of themes of relationship construction, in particular relational damage, repair and maintenance within the daughters' accounts. Therein, the research provides empirical support for the usefulness of Lollis and Kuczynski's (1997) model.Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Xu, Qiong. "Father-daughter relationships among adolescents in Shanghai." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2012. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020679/.
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Contemporary Chinese families are experiencing an increasingly rapid pace of change because of economic growth and the consequences of the One Child policy. These changes are leading to changing expectations concerning gender roles and relationships in families, including those of fathers and daughters. In addition, the long history of Confucianism in Chinese society gives men's roles in families their own specific meanings. The thesis analyses the family lives of girls and their fathers at key points of historical change and in the life course of young people and fathers living in Shanghai. Its contribution to knowledge rests on exploring the applicability of western theories about changing family practices and relationships in a Chinese context. The study examines daughters' and fathers' perspectives of father-daughter relationships among two cohorts of girls aged 13/14 and aged 16/1 7. It seeks to understand how girls and fathers construct their identities as teenagers and as fathers; their family practices; and how they negotiate parental authority and adolescent independence. A multi-method research design was employed: four focus groups conducted in schools, a questionnaire survey with girls ~=767) and their fathers ~=599), and eight pairs of semi structured interviews carried out separately with daughters and their fathers. It was found that most girls were generally happy with their relationships with their mothers and fathers. Both fathers and their daughters valued their fathers' financial and emotional support. Although fathers 'cared about' their daughters, they did not perceive themselves as the parent who should 'take care of their daughter's daily lives. Fathers were also found to spend less time with their daughters, especially those in the older cohort, compared with mothers. Overall, fathers' involvement was mainly focused on girls' education. However, fathers also exercised power over areas of their daughters' social lives, such as going out and making friends, internet use and romantic relationships.
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Pearce, Courtney Dianne Keiley Margaret K. "Daughter-to-father attachment, daughter-to-mother attachment and emotion regulation in college females." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1787.
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Brown, Sibhon Jolette. "The Lived Experience of Daughters Who Have Absent Fathers: A Phenomenological Study." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4716.
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The problem that this study focused on was the difficulties and challenges experienced by daughters who had absent fathers. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of daughters who grew up with absent fathers, and the effects on them as adults at home, in school, in their neighborhoods, and in their decision-making processes. The sample consisted of 20 daughters who grew up with absent fathers. Data were collected using face-to-face semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using 5 phases of Hycner's (1999) phenomenological research. Results indicated that participants' lived experiences of home life were characterized by financial and emotional hardships resulting from the loss of a father's earnings and care. The meanings or lessons that participants derived from having absent fathers included the importance of being independent, of appreciating the people who remained with them, and of making a better life for their own children, either by choosing a mate who would be a committed father or by helping their children to come to terms with the man's absence. Participants reported that the absence of their fathers shaped their decision-making patterns in romantic relationships, either by normalizing exploitative behavior in men (e.g., deception, abuse, or abandonment), or by predisposing them to distrust men. Participants were also affected in their decision-making patterns by the loss of a male perspective and a father's guidance. These results are of significance because by gaining understanding of the experiences of daughters with absent fathers, healthcare professionals may provide appropriate assistance to help these women cope better with their difficulties and struggles.
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Starcher, Shawn C. "Memorable Messages from Fathers to Children through Sports: Perspectives from Sons and Daughters." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1373494611.
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Somers, Marsha Jo. "Fathers and daughters: an assessment of the individuation and strength of their relationship." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49931.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of strength/weakness and fusion/individuation of the father-daughter relationship. Senior girls in a midwestern high school and their fathers were surveyed regarding these aspects of their relationship. Both fathers and daughters provided assessments of the strength/weakness and fusion/individuation of their relationship. The instruments used were the Family Assessment Measure (FAM) and the intergenerational fusion/individuation scale of the Personal Authority in the Family System (PAFS).
Results revealed a significant difference between fathers' and daughters' assessments of the level of fusion/individuation of their relationship. There was no significant difference in their assessment of the strength/weakness. They both scored within the normal range of strength and individuation. There was no difference in the strength/weakness of their relationship across education levels of fathers. Sibling position of the fathers and daughters did not affect the quality of the relationship.Family and Child Development. Ph. D.
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Dias, Claire. "Under his roof : father-daughter relationships under renovation." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82700.
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My thesis is a collection of non-fiction and fictional narratives focused on domestic space and its impact on father-daughter relationships and vice versa. In all of the narratives the notion of a house under renovation serves as a vehicle for the figurative tension between members of the family and family space. The narratives offer no internal markers to indicate whether they are fiction or non-fiction, which demonstrates my conviction that only factors external to the text---relation to fact or to imagination---can determine a narrative's status as fiction or non-fiction.The required afterword to my narratives discusses the theoretical problem of the distinction between fiction and non-fiction as well as the living nature of material culture and space as reflections and mediators of father-daughter relationships.
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Jones, Ffion Wynne. "Relative strangers : father-daughter incest in contemporary literature." Thesis, Bangor University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432794.
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Liu, Miriam Mei Lin. "Issues in father-daughter incest intervention in Taiwan." Thesis, University of Hull, 2006. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:7054.
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This thesis centres on the perceptions of social work professionals involved in incest intervention in Taiwan. It is based on 39 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with respondents from three categories: social workers, social work supervisors and counsellors/therapists, from different regions of Taiwan, working in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Centres. The gender distribution of the interviewees, 35 women and 4 men, reflects the numerical dominance of women in social work. This study shows that the majority of the respondents were assigned child protection work without consultation, reflecting the hierarchical decision-making process in Taiwanese social work, overriding staff autonomy, personal preferences and training background. Child protection work creates high pressure and necessitates joint decision making involving all related disciplines. Almost every worker interviewed felt a high level of stress and a need for support in dealing with incest/child sexual cases, perhaps due to insufficient knowledge and inadequate training. The shorter the time frame they face, the more mistakes they may make. I utilized two theoretical viewpoints, including family systems theory associated with pathological behaviours and feminist theory, to elucidate how interactions between gender and power contribute to gender inequality in intervention outcomes. My findings suggest that the current child protection procedure in Taiwan raises significant concerns. These include time-constraints in intervention and psychotherapy, the sequencing of the procedure, and lack of gender-awareness. It seems the hierarchical organisational structure directly and indirectly encourages social workers to be overreliant on their supervisors in decision-making. The relationship between the supervisor and supervisee is often inadequate, leading to many supervisees feeling undermined and discouraged from growing personally in confidence. My study found that no one particular intervention fits all cases and the therapeutic approach chosen will depend on the circumstances of the case, based on the therapist's training background, individual personality variations and experience. However, practitioners identified 'sensitivity: 'accompaniment' and 'empowerment' as effective and important. Radical changes in attitude, an incorporation of a feminist approach, a gender understanding work culture and a clear resolve to make positive changes in the fields of education, practice and reforms in legal and hierarchical structures may resolve some of the difficulties the present system of social work practice in incest faces.
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Fernandez-Cosgrove, Karen. "Autonomy, father's role, and eating disorders a daughter's perspective /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Sen, Chandra. "A phenomenological exploration of the mother-daughter relationships during and after father-daughter incestuous abuse of the daughter." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31518.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of the relationship between mothers and their incestuously abused daughters. The research sample consisted of five adult daughters who in their childhood and/or adolescence, were abused by their biological fathers. The volunteer participants were in therapy at the time of the research interviews. The study employed a phenomenological method in order to allow the daughters to describe their experiences and perceptions of their mothers. By engaging in a dialogue with the daughters, the researcher attempted to explore the dynamics and impact of the mother-daughter relationships on the daughters.
Results confirmed that these mother-daughter relationships were damaged. However, the daughters also expressed strong desires to heal their relationships with their mothers. In addition, the daughters identified important connections between their relationships with their mothers and the continued influence of this relationship on their experience of themselves in their current lives.
The findings of this study have important research and therapeutic implications. The research findings strongly suggest that the relationship between daughters and their mothers in families where father-daughter incest occurs needs to be examined beyond individual family member's roles which have been the exclusive focus of existing research. Furthermore, the strong connections made by the participants of the present study between their relationships with their mothers and their sense of self, may be an important consideration in therapeutic work with this client population.Education, Faculty of
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Harris, Phyllis G. "Patterns of absolute, differential and structural continuity in perceptions of nurturance in mother-daughter, mother-son, father-daughter and father-son dyads." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2006.
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Scheffler, Frederika. "Fathers and daughters construction of fatherhood in one low-income, semi-rural, Coloured community." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/96061.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Fatherhood literature in South Africa agrees that a look beyond the absent father phenomenon is necessary and that the focus should rather be on the potential of biological and social fathers who are present in their children’s lives. Although fathers are important in the healthy development of both boys and girls, the fathering of adolescents daughters has received limited research attention. For these reasons, this study focused on fathers and their adolescent daughters in one low-income, semi-rural, Coloured community in the Cape Winelands district of the Western Cape, South Africa. The objective of this exploratory study was to investigate fathers’ and adolescent daughters’ constructions of fatherhood. The study was informed by social constructionism and utilised a social constructionist informed grounded theory methodology. Forty-two interviews were conducted with fourteen fathers and adolescent daughters. They were interviewed separately and 29 hours and 47 minutes of interview material were obtained. Data collection, transcription, and analysis took place concurrently. Five conceptual categories were identified: Both the fathers and the daughters focused on the importance of the provider role and daughters’ obedience. Their relationship was spoken of in terms of having an understanding, while the expression of affection appeared to accompany special occasions only. Fathers also emphasised their wish for their daughters to have a better future and spoke at length about their efforts and strategies for ensuring this. Lastly, fathers’ expected daughters to do as they were told and not to follow fathers’ bad examples (e.g. alcohol abuse). The core category focused on the underlying assumptions inherent in the dynamic of the relationship, namely an hierarchical and patriarchal gender order. There seemed to be evidence of both affirmation of and resistance against the patriarchal gender order. Although it seemed that the traditional masculine and feminine ideology continue to hold sway, the presence of New Father discourse suggests the beginning of a shift towards more equitable gender relations and therefore the possibility of change. Recommendations for future research and interventions based on this analysis were also discussed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Binne die Suid-Afrikaanse literatuur oor vaderskap is daar ooreenstemming dat daar nie hoofsaaklik op die afwesige vader fenomeen gekonsentreer moet word nie, maar dat die potensiaal van biologiese en sosiale vaders wie wel teenwoordig in hulle kinders se lewe is, ook ondersoek moet word. Alhoewel vaders belangrik in die gesonde ontwikkeling van beide seuns en meisies is, is die navorsing oor die vaderskap van adolessente dogters beperk. Vir hierdie redes sal die studie fokus op vaders en hulle adolessente dogters in lae-inkomste, semi-landelike, Kleurling gemeenskap in die Kaapse Wynland distrik van die Wes-Kaap, Suid-Afrika. Die doelwit van hierdie ondersoekende studie was om die vaders en adolessente dogters se konstruksie oor vaderskap te ondersoek. Die studie was ingelig deur sosiale konstruksionisme en het ingeligte sosiale konstruksionistiese gegronde teoretiese metodologie gebruik. Twee-en-veertig onderhoude is afsonderlik gevoer met veertien vaders en hul adolessente dogters. Nege-en-twintig ure en 47 minute se onderhoudmateriaal is verkry. Data insameling, transkripsie en analise het gelyktydig plaasgevind. Vyf begripskategorieë was geïdentifiseer: Beide die vaders en dogters het gefokus op die belangrikheid van die pa se voorsienersrol. Verder het hul oor hul verhouding gepraat in terme van 'n “verstandhouding” waarin die vader se outoritere posisie en die dogter se gehoorsame posisie vanselfsprekend aanvaar is. Die woordelikse en fisiese uitdrukking van liefde het net sekere spesiale geleenthede vergesel. Vaders het ook die klem geplaas op hulle begeerte vir hulle dogters om beter toekoms te hê en het breedvoerig hulle pogings en strategieë bespreek om dit toe te sien. Laastens, het vaders van hul dogters verwag om hul vaders se woordelikse opdragte en leringe te volg en hul nie-navolginswaardige voorbeelde (byvoorbeeld alkoholmisbruik) te ignoreer. Die kern kategorie van die gegronde teorie wat in hierdie studie ontwikkel is, belig die onderliggende aannames inherent in die dinamika van die vader-dogter verhouding, naamlik hiërargiese en vaderregtelike geslagsorde. Dit blyk uit die narratiewe van vaders en dogtersl asof daar beide bevestiging van en weerstand teen die vaderregtelike geslagsorde is. Al het dit voorgekom dat die tradisionele manlike- en vroulike ideologie steeds aan die orde van die dag is, kan die aanwesigheid van die Nuwe Vader diskoers dui op verskuiwing na meer billike geslagsverhouding en daarom ook die moontlikheid van verandering. Aanbevelings vir toekomstige navorsing en ingrypings, gebaseer op hierdie analise, word ook bespreek.
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Nunkoosing, Karl. "Constructing fatherhood : a 'bricolage' about the experiences of fathers of disabled sons and daughters." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246632.
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Void, Ashley Nicole. "Colorism and Skin Tone Messages in Father-Daughter Relationships." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6696.
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Colorism, or in-group bias based on skin tone, is a persistent phenomenon within the African American community that often shapes family dynamics and results in significant negative psychosocial effects for African Americans. Researchers have examined colorism primarily as it pertains to mothers' transmission of these messages, but little research exists regarding the paternal role. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the messages fathers transmit to their daughters regarding skin tone, while comparing these messages to those transmitted to fathers in their childhood. Twelve African American men, selected through purposive sampling, participated in individual semistructured interviews. Their responses were analyzed using thematic analysis based on colorism theory. Themes included teachings to daughter, skin tone messages, influence, hard work, attractiveness, love, treatment, and trophies. Findings indicated that fathers provided a protective role in negative colorism messages for daughters, particularly those with darker skin tones. Implications for positive social change include increased understanding of the protective paternal role in transmitting skin tone messages and the potential ability for stakeholders to make inroads to eradicate the negative effects of colorism within the African American family using the protective role of fathers.
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Dunbar, M. Jean, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Past experience, present discoveries, future hope : a journey for fathers." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1999, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/110.
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The father's role in families where there has been domestic violence is now known to have significance impact on future intergenerational abuse (Dutton, 1998). Fathers who shame and physically abuse their sons are putting these young boys at risk for becoming potential abusers. However, even though this risk factor is known, the literature review conducted through this study shows the absence of information on the father/child relationship. Also absent was a knowledge on parenting groups available for these men. In attempting to address this gap in the research and to gain a better understanding of how these fathers experienced the parenting group, I realized I first needed to understand how these men experienced their lives. Using interpretive inquiry, three men were interviewed about their understanding of their life experiences.
The men chosen for the research had a history of domestic abuse within the family. Data collection included observations made during the parenting group, profiles gathered from intake files, and transcripts from the interviews. The data were analyzed for themes, patterns, confirmations, and contradictions, and then interpreted to reconstruct the men's stories. The findings of the study indicate several topics common to all three men: custody, visitation, the role of the father, emotional functioning, and past and present relationships. Interwoven among the topics were the themes of inefficacy, personal care, emotional nurturance and attachment, and awareness of the way they use language. Their stories echo the same message: they love their children and want to be with them.ix, 151 leaves ; 29 cm.
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Hobby, Michelle L. M. "Adult daughters of alcoholic fathers : differentiation of self in family of origin and couple relationships /." Connect to CIFA website:, 2004. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pdwerner/cifa1.htm.
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Rozelle, Heather. "Father-Daughter Relationship in Divorced and Non-Divorced Families with Respect to Self-Esteem, Fear of Intimacy, and Views on Relationships." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/800.
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Wright, Donald R. "Identifying children at risk: caseworkers’ assessment of father-daughter incest." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1988. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/356.
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This study was designed to determine the relationship between attitudes of child protective social workers in their identifying children at risk, and their assessment of father-daughter incest. Fifty-seven caseworkers participated in the study. The findings indicated that: 1) there is no significant difference in mean based on different levels of education in assessment of children at risk; 2) there was no significant difference between the black and white caseworkers in their identifying children at risk in father-daughter incest; and 3) there was no difference in workers living in rural areas as oppose to workers living in urban areas in their perception of children at risk.
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Mann, Erin Irene. "Relative identities: father-daughter incest in Medieval English religious literature." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/4873.
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Medieval tales of father-daughter incest depict more than offensively dominant fathers and voiceless, victimized young women: these stories often contain moments of surprising counternarrative. My analysis of incest narratives foregrounds striking instances of feminine resistance, where daughters act independently, speak unrestrainedly, adopt masculine behaviors, and invert masculine gazes. I argue that daughters of incestuous fathers participate in a complex back-and-forth of attraction and rejection that thrusts the fraught nature of the incest into sharp relief, revealing the ways in which medieval families--as well as the medieval church and state--constructed and deconstructed identities and sexualities. Extending Judith Butler's insights on how incest tales interrogate state and kinship networks, I show how the liminal position of daughters in the family destabilizes the sex/gender system as it functioned in both the family and the larger world, secular and sacred. My dissertation thus relocates daughters from the periphery to the center of the medieval family. Christian thematics likewise provide a key framework for both my argument and medieval audiences: biblical translations and retellings, saints' lives, and moral exempla offered familiar points of reference. By revealing how authors and artists employed well-known religious stories to impart political readings of sexuality and of the family, the four chapters of my dissertation assert daughters' key role in medieval Christian culture. I examine both Anglo-Saxon texts--the biblical epic Genesis A and the prose Life of Euphrosyne--as well as the late medieval poem Cursor mundi and Chaucer's Clerk's Tale. My readings are enhanced by recourse to the medieval visual record offered by three manuscripts that illustrate the Lot story--British Library MS Cotton Claudius B.iv, the Old English Hexateuch, and Oxford Bodleian Library MSS Junius 11(the Genesis A manuscript) and Bodley 270b, a Biblé moralisée. Artistic renderings of father-daughter incest are no less unsettled than their literary counterparts, and demonstrate that the position of daughters was so fundamentally unstable that it often varied not only within an era, but also within a single manuscript. I argue that authors and artists radically reimagined the fundamental texts of the Middle Ages, including the Old Testament, to establish new narratives of sin and salvation, self and other, and power and submission.
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Dillman, Raymond E. "Fat Bob." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Spring%20Theses/DILLMAN_RAYMOND_5.pdf.
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Delaney, Angela Beth. "Sketches of someone I'd rather not know." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/delaney.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007.Title from PDF title page (viewed Jan. 29, 2010). Additional advisors: Robert J. Collins, Peter Donahue, Lawrence G. Wharton. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51).
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Everley, Rachel S. "In Pursuit of Paternal Significance: Fathers' Influence on their Daughters' and Sons' Sexual Behaviors and Beliefs." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1095.
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The United States has the highest teen pregnancy and adolescent STD rates of any industrialized nation. Numerous factors are involved in adolescent sexual decision-making and the social-ecological framework suggests that there are multiple levels of influence on adolescent development, including familial. Utilizing survey data from the Virginia Abstinence Education Initiative (VAEI), this project specifically explores paternal influences on adolescent sexual behavior and beliefs by examining paternal residence in the home, perceived paternal figure sexual beliefs, and father-child relationship factors. Results indicate that paternal figures influence their daughters' and sons' sexual behaviors as well as beliefs. Differences in paternal figure influence across gender were found as well. Those endeavoring to develop more effective teen pregnancy prevention and abstinence education programs may consider the involvement of paternal figures in future efforts.
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Peterson, Camille C. "Father Involvement, Nurturant Fathering, and the Psychological Well-Being of Young Adult Daughters." DigitalCommons@USU, 2007. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/2587.
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The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between father involvement, nurturant fathering, and the psychological well-being among young adult women. A total of 99 young adult, female, university students completed retrospective measures of nurturant fathering, father involvement, and measures of current psychological well-being (measured in terms of self-esteem, life satisfaction, and psychological distress). Results indicated that retrospective perceptions of both father involvement and nurturant fathering were positively correlated with daughters' current levels of self-esteem and life satisfaction. Perceptions of expressive involvement, and nurturant fathering were found to have the strongest relationship with self-esteem and life satisfaction. Results, however, did not indicate any significant correlations between fathering measures and daughters' current psychological distress. Together, the results of the present study provide several important implications for future father-daughter research and the field of marriage and family therapy.
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Jones, Allyson L. ""Just Ask: A Memoir of My Father"." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2020. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1707259/.
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In this memoir, I use the elements and conventions of creative nonfiction to examine particular strands of my experience for significance. Initiated as an inquiry into my father's suicide, this book quickly shifted focus, re-centering around my own development as an individual, a woman, and a writer. Both my father's suicide and the subsequent birth of my daughter serve as focal points for this inquiry, which I use to articulate and explore questions related to identity development, male-female relationships and gender roles, female sexuality, mental illness, trauma, loss, grief, and the inheritance of intergenerational traumas. In places, my investigation also broadens to consider the social, economic, and cultural contexts in which my story, and my family's story, have taken place. My goal in writing this book was to reclaim something of value from a series of personal and familial tragedies and triumphs. I believe that the act of using tragedy as raw material for a new creation is in itself an act of hope. By bearing witness—both to the events that have occurred, and to my personal experience of these events—I see myself as contributing to a larger human project. Every contribution to this project, whether technological innovation or philosophical revelation, shares a common goal: that of counterbalancing the brevity of our physical lives with the richness of our shared human experience.
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Spatafore, Jennifer Felicia. "Relationships between adults and children in public places." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/194.
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Oliver, Joanne Elizabeth. "The father daughter relationship and female adolescent sexual activity and dating life /." View online, 1996. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131402616.pdf.
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Richardson, Suzanna J. "The experience of white British fathers providing care to a son or daughter with a diagnosis of psychosis : an exploration of fathers' accounts of coping." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2018. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/849514/.
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Aim: Given the move towards community-based care and potential changes in attitudes towards men and caring, it was the aim of this study to explore the experiences of fathers caring for and coping with having a son or daughter with psychosis and begin to identify ‘how’ they cope or ‘what helps’ them to cope in this challenging role. Methods: A qualitative exploratory design was employed using semi-structured interviews. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Participants were six white British fathers who self-identified as providing care to their son/daughter who had experienced a first-episode of psychosis, and were under the care of an early intervention team. All fathers were of working age, with a mean age of 56 years and the identified child was living with them at the time of interview. Results: Results suggest that gender identity and masculinity play some role in these fathers’ understanding of their caring role. Strategies that helped them to cope were identified and themes around men and talking emerged as prominent in interviews. Conclusions: With the literature lacking in focused research around coping in relation to parents caring for children with psychosis, and even less focused on fathers, the current research adds valuable research into this important population. Themes suggest that providing opportunities for fathers to talk about their emotions and encouragement to make use of strategies they find effective will enable these fathers to continue providing care to their son or daughter. Implications for clinical practice are discussed.
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Pfaffly, Carol Moore. "An exploration of boundaries of families in treatment for father-daughter incest: a comparison with other clinical families." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39710.
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Gottlieb, Laurie Naomi 1946. "Parental responsiveness and firstborn girls' adaptation to a new sibling." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=72075.
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This study investigated firstborns' adjustment and responsiveness to a new sibling and parents' responsiveness to their firstborn before and after the second child's birth. Parental responsiveness was also examined in the context of predicting firstborns' adjustment and responsiveness to the sibling. Fifty families with firstborn daughters (26-55 mo) were visited at home 6-10 weeks before and 5-6 weeks after the sibling's birth. After the sibling's birth, young firstborns were more distressed than old firstborns; however, prenatal distress was the best predictor of postnatal distress. Old and young firstborns showed different patterns of responsiveness to brothers and sisters. In terms of parental responsiveness, firstborns perceived mothers as more responsive after the birth than before, while their perceptions of fathers remained unchanged. Mothers gave less support after the birth, particularly to old firstborns. Although fathers' support remained unchanged postnatally, fathers gave the least support to old firstborns with brothers. Time spent by mothers with firstborns decreased from before to after the birth, while fathers' time increased. Continuity was found for parental support but not for parental involvement, especially by fathers. Parental support was associated with low postnatal distress while parental caregiving was related to high postnatal distress. Prenatal maternal responsiveness and postnatal paternal responsiveness predicted postnatal distress. Firstborns' perceptions of parental responsiveness were generally associated with firstborns' responsiveness to the sibling. The results were discussed in terms of family-systems theory and stress-coping theory.
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Yegenoglu, Dilara. "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Quest for the Father." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279212/.
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This dissertation explores Elizabeth Barrett's dependency on the archetypal Victorian patriarch. Chapter I focuses on the psychological effects of this father-daughter relationship on Elizabeth Barrett. Chapter II addresses Barrett's acceptance of the conventional female role, which is suggested by the nature and the situation of the women she chooses to depict. These women are placed in situations where they can reveal their devotion to family, their capacity for passive endurance, and their wish to resist. Almost always, they choose death as an alternative to life where a powerful father figure is present. Chapter III concentrates on the highly sentimental images of women and children whom Barrett places in a divine order, where they exist untouched by the concerns of the social order of which they are a part. Chapter IV shows that the conventional ideologies of the time, society's commitment to the "angel in the house," and the small number of female role models before her increase her difficulty to find herself a place within this order. Chapter V discusses Aurora Leigh's mission to find herself an identity and to maintain the connection with her father or father substitute. Despite Elizabeth Barrett's desire to break away from her paternal ties and to establish herself as an independent woman and poet, her unconditional loyalty and love towards her father and her tremendous need for his affection, and the security he provides restrain her resistance and surface the child in her.
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Maggio, Christopher Joseph. "A Doctor's Daughter." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1467289544.
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