Question

I would like to have a response on this forms or post for my psychology class. The focus of my paper is on the relationship between a father and daughter, and how that influences daughters’ selection of romantic partners in emerging adulthood. I wanted to look at research on the effects of the fathers’ own attachment, as well as maladaptive parenting behaviors/styles, and if this is connected and transferred to future partners. I looked at research on attachment styles of secure and insecure adult women during early childhood, adolescence, and emerging adulthood, as well as the relationship between the mother and daughter. It has been suggested that parenting styles, along with the parents’ own attachment preference can offer insight into the formation of daughters’ own attachment preferences. This attachment can be used to understand the model of transference of attachment to romantic partners. Earlier interactions provide a template for future interactions. This research sheds light on unhealthy family dynamics of individuals who did not have a high level of exploration within their family, and how that might contribute to maladaptive behaviors of identity and dependence within their romantic relationships.

Answer 1

The father figure or the male care giver is the first model in a girl child's life who is different from her.She resembles her identity with her mother or the female care giver figure.But she finds her father to be different from her's and her mother's, so father figure becomes the model figure if opposite sex for her. The impression and attachment style with the father always plays an important role in selecting the partners in future adult life of the daughters.The healthy father daughter relationship ensures a healthy relationship the daughter and her partner, whereas,an insufficient attachment or over attachment pattern creates problem in relationships with opposite sex partners in adult life. Consciously or unconsciously a daughter always compares her partner with her first model, father. For example a daughter who had or have a father who is very caring will find her partner to be not caring at the slightest of inattention.Also the strained attachment pattern with the father figure creates problem in establishing and maintaining relationship in a daughter's life.