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How does having an absent father affect his daughter. The father uses his daughter as his primary support and the daughter mediates between her parents all the time. While daughters generally require a level of quality interaction with a father figure sons benefit from sheer quantity of time and respond simply to having a father or father figure around the house. The daughter will blame herself.

In their book The Parents Guide to Eating Disorders the authors Marcia Herrin and Nancy Matsumoto write eloquently about the fact that girls with physically or emotionally absent fathers are at greater risk of developing eating disorders. The daughter will feel sorry for her father and his problems and she wont feel comfortable sharing some of her. Women are likely to have unhealthy love relationships due to insecurity.

Canva Fatherless Daughters and Self-Inflicted Pain. He was kneeled down dressing me in a coat. - Girls with fathers who are involved in their lives have higher quantitative and verbal skills and higher intellectual functioning.

The quickened development into and through puberty of children raised with no father present through to many and varied social and physiological issues. When a father is unavailable physically andor emotionally there is a greater possibility that he will influence his daughters personality in a negative way. The affects covered everything from physical differences ie.

A father validates his daughter and when that father becomes absent or was never there to begin with. Growing up I avoided my father as much as I can. This paper will examine the benefits of father involvement and the negative effects of father absence on a childs development.

Low self worth can open up a whole world of self destructive behaviors Such as eating disorders. Great fear and anxiety can stem from the trauma of an absent father. I recall having to act in certain ways as to not upset my father.