The importance of being father

Abstract

Of course fathers are important - aren't they? Fathers have always been important. Fathers provide for their families. Fathers supervise, discipline and train. Fathers teach children skills and how to survive in a harsh external world. Fathers, as Talcott Parsons said, play the instrumental role in a family leaving mothers the luxury of expressiveness.

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