Justin speaks with associate Professor Jenet Erickson
Topics included in this episode:
- The different roles that mothers and fathers can offer their children
- Mothers impact development by building core
- Fathers impact how children relate to the outside world
- Mums and Dads hold their babies differently
- A key predictor of college graduation is the involvement of a father
- Blue brain vs pink brain
- Fathers promote risk taking
- Nuturing is both holding close AND letting go
- Children benefit from both processes
- Daughters whose fathers are not present are more likely to engage sexually at a younger age
- Boys need to see their fathers showing love to women and children in non sexual ways
- Gender and Parenthood by Brad Wilcox
- Love is happiness.
- The intentional family is a ritualising family
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