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The Relationships Between Mothers, Fathers, Infants, and Siblings in the First Two Years of Life.
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Lamb, Michael E. – 1977
This paper discusses the nature of the infant social world. Infants develop attachments to both parents. Father-child and mother-child relationships are qualitatively different. They involve different types of experiences and have different implications for the child's personality development. The fathers' sex-differentiating behavior focuses the…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Infant Behavior