Understanding Male-Centric Parenting: A Contemporary Study

Historical, research on primary parental child-care and involvement has been focused on the female partner in relationships (lamb, et al. 2014). Moreover, the majority of research that does exist, studying father involvement revolves around the negative effects of distance fathers (lamb, et al. 2014). Notwithstanding, in recent years there have been strides to better understand how families with a male figure as the primary caretaker differ from women, there is still much to room to grow.
Another new trend in family research is that of same sex families with children. As well, there is a great deal of research on lesbian couples with children, there is still a shortfall with regards to understanding the differences between lesbian couples and gay couples.
One idea to better understand how to increase the involvement of male caretakers is to look at parent child relationships that only have male parents. However, there is still a need for more, and in-depth

In this view the family systems theory would dismiss any possibility for successful gay childrearing, just as Banduras social learning theory. The largest reason that Family system theory would discount gay parenting is because family systems theory is based almost exclusively on the idea of a nuclear family being the only way to achieve success (McCume, 2009). The typical heterosexual family is often referred to as a nuclear family. This family has a male father, female mother, and sex-gender matching children. Within the family there are roles that fall into typical gender norms. The mother does the cooking and cleaning, the father is the primary income, the male children play with GI Joe, and the female children play with Barbie. In reality this notion of family is dwindling away in and being replaced by a hodgepodge of mixtures, but in family science this type is still considered the norm to which all others are