Studies have found that the father is a child's preferred attachment figure in approximately 5–20% of cases. Fathers and mothers may react differently...

approaches. Nothing in the theory suggests that fathers are not equally likely to become principal attachment figures if they provide most of the child care and...

their fathers. She explained how recently born children bond with their fathers at similar ages during development. Researchers question how father-infant...

person's biological father, who performs typical paternal functions and serves as an object of identification and attachment. [Father figures] may include such...

dynamic-maturational model of attachment and adaptation (DMM) is a biopsychosocial model describing the effect attachment relationships can have on human...

Adults feel comforted when their attachment figures are present and feel anxious, and/or lonely, when their attachment figures are absent. Romantic relationships...

Attachment measures, or attachment assessments, are the various procedures used to assess the attachment system in children and adults. These procedures...

During the later part of this period, children begin to use attachment figures (familiar people) as a secure base to explore from and return to. Parental responses...

provision for either one or both fathers to take paternity leave. Child custody Fathers' rights movements such as Fathers 4 Justice argue that family courts...

psychobiological system (the "attachment behavioral system") that motivates them to seek proximity to significant others (attachment figures). This revolutionary...