Impact Of Father Involvement On Family

The Impact of Father Involvement in a Single-Parent Household

Throughout my childhood I grew up in a single family household ran by my father. He was not only a father to myself, but raised my two older sisters as well. From such a young age I grew up in a single family household with my father as my primary caregiver. This is what I consider to be my “normal”. Not until I reached my later years in high school and into college did a truly began to realize and understand the impact a Father has on their child’s life. Within the past decade or so the idea that a fathers role in the development of their child’s life is becoming increasing more important. Being an involved father can be defined in many different ways, by both directly and indirectly.

The outcomes included well-being, desires for more or less father involvement and a likelihood of outcome for divorce. One of the most noticeable finding from this research was how father involvement is linked to long-term effects as to whether the family stays intact or has undergone a divorce (Finely, 2003). For intact families, it was reported that father involvement was positively related to high self-esteem, life satisfaction, and future expectations in young adulthood. By contrast, in divorced families, the absence of father involvement is linked to greater long-term desires for father involvement, which have been described as subtle indices of divorce-related (Finley,

I believe coming from a single-parent household, it changes the typical outlook of father involvement in early adulthood and the long-term effects. As for myself, I still highly relive on my father for both emotional and financial support in my adult years and this can mainly due to he is my only recourse I have had growing up. The aspect of this research I have yet to experience in my life is the likelihood of divorce for myself. Research shows that you are more likely to get a divorce yourself, if you come from a family of divorce (Finley,