Six types of studies show that father love sometimes explains as much or more of the variation in specific child and adult outcomes as does mother love. Sometimes, however, only father love is statistically associated with specific aspects of offsprings' development and adjustment, after control ling for the influence of mother love. Recognition of these facts was clouded historically by the cultural construction of fatherhood and father
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