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How does an absent father affect a daughter. When a father is absent whether physically or emotionally from his daughters life especially during childhood it may seriously affect the daughters ability to form a strong bond with not only him but it may have a trickle down effect to all the other men who will come into her life. I have one memory of my father one in which I was standing in the hallway of a home I once lived in. That was back in the earl.

For many reasons detailed in this course the father is an essential aspect of the psyche and significant for the daughters development and her psychological and physical life expressed personally and culturally. It can also affect everything in our livesperhaps most importantly our intimate relationships. And Diamond says that the father wound can become a generational issue.

Words were murmured and that was the last time Ive seen him. The first male a female encounters is her father. A preponderance of studies identify at least nine factors influencing a childs well-being when they do not live with their fatherfrequency of contact age and gender of the child the fathers.

The affects covered everything from physical differences ie. This can lead to depression shame and self-harm. Mental health disorders father absent children are consistently overrepresented on a wide range of mental health problems particularly anxiety depression and suicide Mortality fatherless children are more likely to die as children and live an average of four years less over the life span.

When a father is unavailable physically andor emotionally there is a greater possibility that he will influence his daughters personality in a negative way. Physically he has always been there. Interestingly it has been shown that the affects of emotionally unavailable fathers were almost identical to those where the father was physically absent.

Great fear and anxiety can stem from the trauma of an absent father. I at least knew my father. How does an absent father affect a daughter.