Abstract
Presence of both mother and father are crucial for optimum emotional,spiritual and physical development of children. The main purpose of thisstudy was to explore mother perceptions regarding the effects of father’sabsence on child growth and development. The qualitative approach wasused to explore this phenomenon with mothers of 1 to 8 years oldchildren, where father was absent since last six months. Two focus groupdiscussions and five In-depth interviews were conducted in three middleclass communities of Karachi, Pakistan. Each FGD involved 10 motherswho were recruited through purposive sampling and consented toparticipate. Findings of the current study have been categorized into fourmain themes as father's role in child development, Problems mothersface while nurturing their children and the support systems of mothersand family. Study concluded that physical absent of father contributed innegative outcome on child emotional, social, psychological and physicaldevelopment. Mother experienced stress and depression while handlingmany responsibilities on everyday lives. Girl child and boy child bothsuffers equally and need their father presence in social and academicactivities and daily life. While making programs for holistic childdevelopment policy maker should consider this issue.
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