Father-Daughter Relationships

Download or read book Father-Daughter Relationships written by Linda Nielsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How fathers affect their daughters' social, academic, intellectual, athletic, and psychological development is then considered. Factors that can weaken father-daughter relationships, such as divorce, including various theoretical perspectives, are explored in chapters 5 and 6. Father-daughter relationships of racial or ethnic minorities and an array of potentially destructive situations that affect these relationships are the focus of chapters 7 and 8. The impact of fathers who are incarcerated, abusive, alcoholics, gay, or sperm donors are considered. The book concludes with suggestions on where we go from here.