Researchers from the University of Oxford studied 194 families to determine whether a father’s early interaction with his child had an effect on their behaviour later on in life.
They observed the way fathers interacted with their children at home when they were three months old and compared this against the child’s behaviour at 12 months.
The findings showed that children whose fathers were more engaged in the interactions had better outcomes and less behavioural problems. However, children whose fathers were more distant, lost in their own thoughts or interacted less with them were more likely to have behavioural problems at 12 months old.
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