This can lead to depression shame and self-harm.

How does having an absent father affect his daughter. I recall having to act in certain ways as to not upset my father. Great fear and anxiety can stem from the trauma of an absent father. This paper will examine the benefits of father involvement and the negative effects of father absence on a childs development.

- Girls with fathers who are involved in their lives have higher quantitative and verbal skills and higher intellectual functioning. When a father is unavailable physically andor emotionally there is a greater possibility that he will influence his daughters personality in a negative way. Growing up I avoided my father as much as I can.

Canva Fatherless Daughters and Self-Inflicted Pain. When young children are deprived of a strong fatherly presence in their lives they can become susceptible to a wide range of issues. It is very common for a child to identify with an absent parent as if the absence itself promotes the childs psychological identification with that parent.

Anorexia nervosa bulimia binge-eating body dysmorphia unhealthy preoccupations with food or body weight and other eating disorders are all more likely if a girl does. The daughter will blame herself. But in my memories he is close to being absent.

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. That was back in the earl. A daughter is left to cope with the difficulties encountered by him not being there.

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. He was kneeled down dressing me in a coat. I have one memory of my father one in which I was standing in the hallway of a home I once lived in.