Before revision: Other functions a father figure can provide include: helping establish personal boundaries between mother and child;Robin Skynner/John Cleese, Families and how to survive them (1994) p. 196-9 promoting self-discipline, teamwork and a sense of gender identity;Skynner, p. 21-2, p. 199-201 and p. 244-6 offering a window into the wider world;D. W. Winnicott, The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (1973) p. 115-6 and providing opportunities for both idealization and its realistic working-through.Winnicott, p. 116-7 Absence Studies have shown that a lack of a father figure in a child's life can have severe negative psychological impacts upon a child's personality and psychology,L.
After revision: Other functions a father figure can provide include: helping establish personal boundaries between mother and child;Robin Skynner/John Cleese, Families and how to survive them (1994) p. 196-9 promoting self-discipline, teamwork and a sense of gender identity;Skynner, p. 21-2, p. 199-201 and p. 244-6 offering a window into the wider world;D. W. Winnicott, The Child, the Family, and the Outside World (1973) p. 115-6 and providing opportunities for both idealization and its realistic working-through.Winnicott, p. 116-7 Fatherlessness Studies have shown that a lack of a father figure in a child's life can have severe negative psychological impacts upon a child's personality and psychology,L.