Father-daughter Relations Research Articles

Culture of providing psychological assistance taking into account the spiritual heritage of the client (case analysis)

This article is an integral part of a series of articles in which the positive dynamics of psychological work based on Ingush culture and religious values is shown by the example of specific cases of child-parent relations. In the first article of the series "Multicultural approach in psychological counseling: ethno-religious aspect (case analysis)" [1] on the example of father-daughter relations, we described the content of the process of psychological counseling, performed taking into account the ethno-cultural and spiritual characteristics of the client. The second article "Counseling in the cultural and spiritual context of the client (case analysis)" [2] reveals the process of culturally oriented counseling on the example of the father-son relationship. The third article "Ethnic and religious identity as a client's resources in working with a psychologist" [3] describes the process of psychological counseling, taking into account cultural, religious and individual diversity, using the example of the relationship between a spouse and her missing husband. In the fourth article "Cultural and spiritual dimension in psychological counseling (case analysis)" [4], an analysis of a multicultural approach in psychological counseling, which takes into account the ethnic and religious specifics of the client, is given on the example of a specific case of the work of a psychologist sensitive to cultural and spiritual differences with the relationship of mother and daughter. The positive dynamics of psychological work based on the Ingush culture and values of Islam is shown. In the fifth article, an attempt is made to comprehend the experience of a ten-year-old girl saying goodbye to her mother, to understand what helps a person when their loved one leaves this world [5]. This article describes the culture of providing psychological assistance, taking into account the spiritual heritage of the client, using the example of a specific case. The results of the study showed that the multicultural competence of the therapist provides them not only with a high level of the client’s trust, but also a professional approach based on the use of ethno-religious resources in therapeutic work.

Understanding the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence on adult women

Given South Africa’s social, historical, political, and economic landscape which has contributed towards a relatively high prevalence of father absence, particularly in Black families, and the risk of adverse implications for children’s psychosocial development, the issue of absent fathers is an important area for research. However, the differential impact of father absence on the girl child remains relatively under-researched. Hence, the study explored the perceived psychosocial impact of father absence during childhood and adolescence on adult women. A case study research design located within a qualitative research approach was employed and nine adult women aged 18 to 35 years were purposefully recruited from Grobler Park, Johannesburg West for participation in the study. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, three participants were interviewed telephonically and seven face-to-face. The research was guided by Mkhize’s sociocultural psychological tradition and Erikson’s psychosocial development theory. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the collected data. Among the key findings was that the women perceived the experience of father absence to have adversely affected their feelings of belonging and sense of identity, with some participants having suffered emotional and financial challenges. Participants acknowledged a lack of healthy relationships with other men associated with having grown up with an absent father. While most of the women adopted positive coping strategies, a small number resorted to negative coping. There was also recognition of the important roles that social fathers assume in child-rearing. These findings have important implications for promoting positive father-daughter relations.

Psychological assistance to a child in case of mother loss: ethnic and religious resources (case analysis)

This article is an integral part of a series of articles in which the positive dynamics of psychological work based on Ingush culture and religious values is shown by the example of specific cases of child-parent relations. In the first article of the series “Multicultural approach in psychological counseling: ethno-religious aspect (case analysis)”, using the example of fatherdaughter relations, we described the content of the process of psychological counseling, that was performed taking into account the ethno-cultural and spiritual characteristics of the client. The second article “Counseling in the cultural and spiritual context of the client (case analysis)” reveals the process of culturally oriented counseling on the example of a father-son relationship. The third article, “Ethnic and religious identity as a client's resources in working with a psychologist,” reveals the process of psychological counseling, taking into account cultural, religious and individual diversity, using the example of the relationship between a spouse and her missing husband. In the fourth article “Cultural and spiritual dimension in psychological counseling (case analysis)”, an analysis of a multicultural approach in psychological counseling, which takes into account the ethnic and religious specifics of the client, is given on the example of a specific case of the work of a psychologist sensitive to cultural and spiritual differences with mother-daughter relationships. The positive dynamics of psychological work based on the Ingush culture and values of Islam is shown.In this article, we tried to comprehend the experience of a ten-year-old girl saying goodbye to her mother, to understand what helps a person when his loved one leaves this world. The results of the study showed that the multicultural competence of the therapist provides him not only with a high level of client confidence, but also a professional approach based on the use of ethno-religious resources in therapeutic work.

Are filial eldercare norms related to intergenerational solidarity with older parents? A typological developmental approach.

Intergenerational solidarity is multidimensional in nature, but the role of filial eldecare norms in structuring intergenerational solidarity is less understood. We examine how filial eldercare norms expressed in early adulthood and midlife are associated with intergenerational solidarity with older parents and how this association varies across parent-child gender combinations. We used data from 1985 to 2005 waves of the Longitudinal Study of Generation when the generation of interest was 32 and 52 years of age, respectively. A three-step latent class approach, culminating with a multinomial logistic regression, was conducted on a sample of 198 mother-son, 279 mother-daughter, 155 father-son, and 209 father-daughter dyads. A tight-knit intergenerational type was uniquely identified in mother-daughter relations, and a social unsupportive type was uniquely identified in father-son and father-daughter relations. Daughters expressing stronger filial norms in early adulthood were more likely in middle adulthood to belong to a tight-knit relational type with mothers and a social unsupportive and intimate but distant relational type with fathers, compared to a detached relational type; these effects were mediated by contemporaneously measured filial norms. Our study complements previous studies on the relationship between filial eldercare norms and intergenerational solidarity with older parents by showing that these norms exert an influence by virtue of being stable in adult daughters over 20 years into middle age. These findings demonstrate that eldercare norms expressed by daughters prior to their parents' transition to old age structure intergenerational relationships in later life, suggesting that such norms are better considered as long-term endowments than as situational in their origins. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Anointed or appointed? Father–daughter succession within the family business

With the focus on events and outcomes shaping most of the existing family business research on intra-family succession, the subtleties of the incumbent–successor relationship and the dynamic nature of succession as a process of becoming is somewhat neglected. In particular, we have limited understanding of how successor identities are constructed as legitimate between incumbent and successor during father–daughter succession. This article addresses this gap in understanding by exploring how the daughter successor engages in identity work with the father incumbent during the process of succession and the role of father–daughter gendered relations in shaping her successor identity. Using a two-stage research design strategy, we draw upon empirical evidence derived from 14 individual and joint semi-structured interviews to present a narrative analysis of five father–daughter dyads. In so doing, we unveil how the daughter’s successor identity was co-constructed as legitimate and how father–daughter gendered relations influenced this process. Although daughters rely on certain father–daughter relations (preparation, endorsement and osmotic credibility) for legitimacy, they also need to develop independently of their father to heighten their own visibility and establish credibility.

The Rescue of French Jews during the Second World War as Reflected in Two Novels: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and the Velvet Hours by Alyson Richman

Two primary concepts are usually mentioned when analyzing the attitude of the French towards the Jews during the Second World War: anti-Semitism and rescue. Paldiel divides the types of help offered by the rescuers during the Second World War into four: a hiding place, impersonating a non-Jew, escape, and helping children. The two novels, The Nightingale and The Velvet Hours were written at around the same time and share many common themes: rigid father-daughter relations, becoming orphaned, unwanted pregnancy, and pioneering women leaders. The ethnic origin of both authors is also the same, but the primary purpose of this article is to discuss the setting of both novels: the Second World War; in France, and the heroic deed occurring in the two books: saving Jews from the threat of the Nazi invader. We will examine each book separately and then discuss the points common to both – points that will evolve into a discussion and conclusions.

From pederasty to pedophilia: Sex between children or youth and adults in U.S. history

AbstractThe history of sexual relations between children or youth and adults in the United States has received limited attention in part because of the strong taboos against discussion of the topic. The growing moral panic about pedophilia in the 1980s, which coincided with the first wave of American historiography of sexuality, had a silencing effect. Historians of the family first broke the silence by researching the history of incest within the family, focusing on father–daughter relations. Later, in the 1990s, historians of childhood argued that age should be considered as a category of analysis within the history of sexuality. Many scholars have explored the role that age played in structuring same‐sex male encounters, especially at the turn of the twentieth century. Others working in a range of disciplines have historicized the rhetoric of the “sexual psychopath” or the “pedophile,” and its effects. Much work remains to be done on multiple aspects of this topic.

Father-Daughter Relations in Biblical Law, written by Joseph Fleishman

Father-Daughter Relations in Biblical Law, written by Joseph Fleishman

The Mother, Who Is Not One: Reflections Of Motherhood In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet, The Tempest, And The Taming Of The Shrew

Abstract The lack of proper motherhood in Shakespeare's plays has been a point of attraction for many feminist critics actively engaged in emphasizing the patriarchal aspect of Shakespeare's plays. This paper aims to analyze motherhood and the lack of mother/mother-figure in The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew through Luce Irigaray's theory of gender and the work of other feminist critics. The issues of gender, father-daughter relations and the reflections of the absent mothers will be discussed. Male/Female Subjectivity will also be questioned, in view of Irigaray's conceptualization of gender by relating it to Subject.

Den Asosiale Unge Pike

SUMMARYIn his second article (cp. Nord. Psykol., 1965, 17, 323–334) the author describes the role of parent-child relations in the development of delinquent pathology in young girls. Case illustrations are presented stressing the importance of the mother's guilt-feelings reversals of mother-daughter roles and hidden delinquent tendencies in the mother herself. Aspects of father-daughter relations with special reference to sexual and authority problems are illustrated.Four developmental patterns are discussed and illustrated: 1. Well compensated behaviour disturbances before puberty/delinquent acting out in adolescence/subsequent stabilization.2. Ego-weak behaviour disturbance with early and deep damage to personality/continuing delinquent life pattern in early and late adolescence.3. Overprotected, infantile personality/temporary delinquency/subsequent stabilization.4. Acute and transient stress reaction in adolescence in earlier well adjusted personality.

Daddy’s Girls?: Father-Daughter Relations and the Failures of the Postcolonial Nation-State in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père

Postcolonial theoretical discourses have adopted postnationalist overtones, declaring the obsolescence of the nation and treating dislocation as the paradigmatic condition. Sometimes, however, the claims of postnationalism may seem premature: the nation-state persists in the African literary agenda. When operating within the current paradigm, the notion of cosmopolitanism can serve as a useful tool for understanding contemporary African literatures and the ways in which they negotiate their relation to the local realities of the continent and the world beyond its boundaries. In this article, I read the narrative of the failed post-colonial nation-state through the lens of the father-daughter relations in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Véronique Tadjo’s Loin de mon père (2010). The father-daughter relations are intertwined with the narrative of the postcolonial nation, giving voice to daughterly disillusionment. The texts inscribe the national crisis on a larger map, making it a global rather than simply a local concern. The novels undertake a new attitude toward nationhood while being interested in national issues: their future visions are not in line with the logic of the nation-state but nor are they so with the transnational dimension. Instead, they are equally informed by the unease caused by the failures of the postcolonial nation-state and the unfulfilled hopes of finding both a more favorable socioeconomic situation and a sense of belonging in diaspora.

Conflict in the Latino parent-youth dyad: The role of emotional support from the opposite parent.

In the present study, the author examined the independent and interactive effects of support and conflict within a triadic familial context (mother-father-youth). The sample consisted of 6th- and 7th-grade inner-city Latino youths (N = 329; 142 boys, 187 girls). Using multiple regression techniques, level of conflict with either mother or father was consistently related to higher levels of both boys' and girls' internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Interaction effects were significant in predicting boys' externalizing behavior problems--a supportive parental relationship significantly reduced the risk associated with high conflict with the opposite parent. For boys' internalizing problems, mother and father support served a protective function regardless of the level of conflict with the opposite parent. Conflict with the mother was especially detrimental for Latina girls--highly conflictive mother-daughter relationships were associated with increased internalizing and externalizing symptomatology, and father support added little in predicting symptomatology. The study adds to the understanding of risk and protection in Latino families and underscores the importance of examining the parent-youth relationship from a triadic perspective, noting similarities and differences in mother-son, mother-daughter, father-son, and father-daughter relations.

PLAYING FATHERS' GAMES

“The Blank Page”, Isak Dinesen's acclaimed story and its feminist reading, led by Susan Gubar's seminal work, epitomizes the defiance and subversiveness of women's writing. However, what Dinesen refers to in her story as “the germ” of women's narratives, has been ignored. This germ or source is the biblical story of Achsah, the daughter of Caleb (Joshua 15 and Judges 1), a dramatic story of concealed subversion of a national leader who gambled with his daughter to advance his conquests, and that of a daughter who dared to defy her appropriation as the spoils of war. The biblical text and the traditional commentary accompanying it present the story as a domestic narrative of familial arrangements, therefore concealing its political significance and marginalizing it within the context of the national narrative of conquests and settlement in the land of Canaan. Re‐reading the text shifts the focus from the professed context, namely the narrative of conquest whose protagonist is Caleb, to the concealed one, namely the emotional junction of father–daughter relations, whose protagonist is Achsah. Reading the story of Achsah in this new context not only sheds light on Dinesen's view of women's subversiveness, but also outlines the politics of women's resistance and its implications.

All too familiar: Luce Irigaray's recent thought on sexuation and generation

In recent works, Luce Irigaray offers arguments for the establishment of sexed rights that rely upon certain presuppositional accounts of the development of relational sexuate identity and difference. The paper advances a series of objections to these accounts, in addition to examining some of Irigaray's proposals concerning women's indefinition, the category of the neuter, and female genealogy. Supplementing Luce Irigaray's argument that mother-daughter genealogy is under-symbolized in present Occidental cultures, it suggests, for reasons consonant with Irigaray's general project, additional corrective representation of paternal genealogy in terms of father-daughter relations.

The family and anorexia nervosa: examining parent–child boundary problems†

AbstractObjectiveTo examine parent–child boundary dissolution in anorexia nervosa using a measure that treats boundary phenomena as multidimensional and distinct from highly cohesive relationships.Method30 women with anorexia were recruited from an eating disorders programme and compared with 65 control women on reports of intergenerational boundary problems using the Parent‐Child Boundaries Scale. This measure conceptualizes boundaries as multidimensional and can address both mother–daughter and father–daughter relations. Family cohesion was also measured using the FACES III. A subset of parents completed these measures.ResultsWomen with anorexia reported more boundary problems with mothers and fathers than did control women, both in terms of global and some specific violations. However, parents of anorexic women did not endorse more boundary problems with their daughters.DiscussionDaughters' views suggest that boundary violations are problematic in anorexia. Results suggest that boundary problems can be treated as multidimensional and should be viewed as distinct from high levels of familial cohesion. These results also suggest that it is important to ascertain individual family members' viewpoints on family dynamics. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children

SUMMARY This paper examines data from a panel study on the long-term effects of parental marital quality and divorce on relationships between parents and adult children. Attention is focused on whether these effects vary by age and gender of child as well as the theoretical explanations linking mother-father and parent-child relations. The relational quality between adult children (18-31 years old) and both mothers and fathers is examined from the perspective of both children and parents. Among intact families, parental marital quality has long-term effects on father-child relations, regardless of gender, whereas short-term effects are characteristic of mother-child relations and only perceived by mothers. Further, although divorce without remarriage hurts sons' relationships with both fathers and mothers, it hurts father-daughter relations even more. Mother-daughter bonds appear to be improved by divorce, with declines in income explaining a large portion of the tendency for divorce to affect father-child relations.

The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan’s Cité des Dames by Maureen Quilligan

REVIEWS series. Among the twenty-five more titles planned, mostly from the four­ teenth andfifteenth centuries, of special interest are The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, edited by John Bowers, which appeared in late 1992, and King Arthur's Death, long out of print and much regretted by many teachers, edited by Larry D. Benson and Edward Foster, scheduled for 1993. These volumes and those reviewed here are being printed in runs of 500 copies each, so that errors can be corrected (though I found all four typographically very clean), glosses can be augmented as needed, and introductions and notes can be updated frequently. Teachers are invited to send the general editor reports on how the texts work in the classroom as well as suggestions for improvement. HOWELL CHICKERING Amherst College MAUREEN QUILLIGAN. The A//egory ofFemale Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite des Dames. Ithaca, N.Y. and London: Cornell University Press, 1991. Pp. xv, 290. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Women artists have sometimes been thought to work small, but Christine de Pizan (or Pisan) wrote large, in long prose and verse treatises about the big topics: history, gender, morals, politics, and literary tradition. Christine has been neither a forgotten nor a neglected author since her death about 1430; her fortunes compare favorably with those of many another late-medieval author. However, the works once most in vogueL 'Epistre Othea, the Livre des fais d'armes et de chevalerie, the Livre des Trots vertus, and other courtly-chivalric works-have been, for many mod­ ern readers, decisively displaced by the Livre de la cite des dames ( 1405). That work is now well served by Maureen Quilligan's book, the first full­ length study of the Cite. Many of Christine's ideas were conventional enough, her style often pedestrian, and her politics distinctly conservative. What was remarkable and innovative about Christine was that she ambitiously constructed herself as author, indeed distinctively as woman author, and as public figure at a time when women-though actively engaged in productive labor of all kinds-did not often occupy those particular positions, excluded as they 263 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER were from the major sites of cultural production in university, priesthood, and high public office. It is Quilligan's purpose to investigate the tech­ niques of this self-construction-"the creation of female subjectivity" (p. 237)-as they are revealed in the Cite. The format-"page-by-page commentary" (p. 2) on the text-makes it somewhat difficult to follow the coherent development of an argument, but is justified as necessary to clarify "all the details of [Christine's] can­ onical maneuvering as she creates for herself a place in the list of texts by constructing the list through her own deft revisions" (p. 4). The idea of maternity is central to these revisions as a major source of female authority, both in the frame story (where the narrator's mother enters the text) and in many of the stories narrated. Indeed, Quilligan concludes, "the author's relationship to her mother was a foundational one for the writing of the Cite" (p. 237). By tracing the web of mother-daughter and father-daughter relations in the book, Quilligan is able to illuminate the inner structures of Christine's textual city. Chapter 1, "The Name of the Author," defines some basic concepts and practices that arise early on in the text. Quilligan uses Dante as model with respectto self-naming, Chaucer and Boccaccio as foils on otherissues,such as the misogynist tradition or voicing through a female character. I would have liked a quotation or page reference in support of Quilligan's assertion (p. 39) about the masculinist intention of Boccaccio's De mulieribus clans (Christine's main source), for her interpretation does not square with Boccaccio'sdedicatory letter or preface. I saw this as a minor instance of the Boccaccio bashing that seems to inform much Christine scholarship as a prerequisite to celebrating her revisionary art (Boccaccio too was revising, of course, and, he said, in the interest of women). This opening chapter accounts for two attitudes that modern readers might question in Christine's work: essentialism...

Reconstructing Desire: The Role of the Unconscious in Women's Reading and Writing

This provocative study explores the function of the unconscious in reading and creative processes. The book asks if reading can change the reader and if women, through reading, can change the unconscious fantasy structures that govern desire. Using models of the unconscious developed by Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Cixous, Nay, and Chodorow, Wyatt explores the complex interactions between a text and a reader's unconscious. She theorizes specific processes whereby young readers can assimilate dynamic images of female autonomy in Heidi , The Wizard of Oz , and Little Women . By tracing the imprint of father-daughter relations on women's unconscious fantasy life, Wyatt seeks to explain the hold of romantic love fantasies like Jane Eyre over many female readers. She looks to contemporary novels for alternative fantasies: to female artist novels by Lessing, Drabble, and Walker for fantasies of sexuality nurturing creativity; and to the flexible family circles of Beloved and The Color Purple for alternatives to patriarchal family arrangements. Wyatt argues that novels like The Awakening and Housekeeping that reflect and transform readers preoedipal fantasies offer women radical alternatives to dominant cognitive and social structures.