In his study conducted in the long run, Concordia University in Canada to observe the behavior of 138 children aged 3-5 years following their respective parents. These children were then observed again after the 9-13 years age. Children are asked to do a test of intelligence, while their mothers answered a questionnaire about the home environment and conflicts with his partner.
The study, published in Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science found that father absence would greatly affect girls, so they have emotional problems with a higher level during middle childhood.
"The father was an important contribution in the development of behavior and intelligence of children," said Erin Pougnet, PhD candidate at Concordia University's Department of Psychology.
According to him, his father belonging to an active role in the early and middle childhood of their children, tend to raise a child with behavioral problems is lower. Additionally, as adults these children have a higher intellectual ability compared with other children who do not often see her father. This is also true among family social and economic status are less good.
But according to Professor Lisa A. Serbin, one team of researchers, the single mom who raised her children alone without the presence of a husband not to worry.
"Mothers and other caregivers are also important (in the child's life). The father does have a major influence, but clearly there are many alternative ways to raise healthy children. There are some children who never met his father again, or that his father lived far apart, is quite both intellectually and emotionally, "he said.
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