Abstract
A large number of studies have proved that fathers have irreplaceable important value to the growth of young children. While in reality, there is a large number of "father missing" phenomenon in China. Previous studies have focused on the influence of father involvement on children development and the influence factors of father involvement in child rearing. Fathers’ participation has various degrees of influence on children’s development of personality, social ability, cognition, intelligence and academic achievement, gender roles, morality and emotion, as well as physical development. Family, society, fathers’ characters and children’s personalities all affect fathers’ participation in child rearing to some extent. There are the following deficiencies in the studies of father involvement: first, the number of research on fathers’ participation is very insufficient; second, the research scope of father involvement is narrow and interdisciplinary research is insufficient; third, the research depth needs to be improved urgently; Fourth, the research paradigm is mainly speculative and quantitative, and the qualitative research needs to be strengthened.
Highlights
A large number of studies have proved that fathers have irreplaceable important value to the growth of young children
The importance of father involvement is generally recognized by the whole society, the phenomenon of "father absence" still exists widely in China
A large number of related studies focused on the influence of father involvement on children’s physical and mental development, and paid more attention to the role of fathers’ participation in the growth of children
Summary
Studies on parentage mostly ignored the influence of fathers on children’s growth. A large number of related studies focused on the influence of father involvement (or absence) on children’s physical and mental development, and paid more attention to the role of fathers’ participation in the growth of children. Ishii-Kuntz et al (2002) found that father involvement in parenting had a direct impact on the development of pro-social behavior of 3-year-old children. Xia Li (2007) found that the cognitive abilities of 5-year-old children whose parents were divorced and lacked their fathers’ love were different from children in normal families, which showed that they were lagging behind in the intelligence tests such as box design, labyrinth walking, arithmetic and so on. Studies by Sott (1995), Flouri (2002, 2005), Mcbride (2005) had shown that when fathers participation in children education, they played positive roles in promoting their children’s academic achievement and learning attitude. It was further found that parent-child relationship did not directly affect children’s academic achievement, but affected children’s emotion and behavior, which had an indirect effect on learning achievement
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