Many fathers and daughters know very little about one another side from the stereotypic roles they play in the family. Not surprisingly then most movies and television programs also push the father-daughter relationship off to the side or ignore it altogether. If the father is included in any discussion, he is often portrayed as indifferent, self-centered, distant, insensitive, uncommunicative, and stressed - especially when it comes to interacting with the daughter. More shocking is the data collected by V. Phares (1997) that reveals fathers generally are not as welcomed or as supported as mothers when it comes to establishing close relationships with their children - especially with the daughter and especially after she becomes a teenager. Yet although society tends to idealize and honor mothers more than fathers, this does not imply that the father has little impact on childrearing, in fact the opposite is true. Recent studies have shown that fathers are just as good as mothers at taking care of, nurturing, and bonding with children- even in early infancy. More importantly, the research also indicates father

In the first pattern, fathers who have a negative outlook on a girl’s femininity did damage to his daughter’s social and sexual development. In this case, the father created numerous problems for his daughter. The daughter who grows up with a fathering style mimicking pattern one is usually dependent on man, and lack independence. The second pattern looks at the absent father. Indeed, if the father is absent then the daughter will yearn for the love that her father could not provide her and will most likely seek men who are not affectionate or attracted to her. A daughter that has an absent father will also most likely divorce her husband, or at least have an unhappy marriage because she as a child she had no male that could interact with her. Moreover, she will more likely be involved in dangerous behavior such as taking drugs, and having unprotected sex. The third pattern indicates that the father gives all his attention to the daughter. The daughter is seen as a powerful person and this is at a high price to the daughter because when it comes to future relationships no other man can measure up to the father. Those fathers that have high expectations for their daughters, but do not support them emotionally can affect the daughter’s self-image. Many of these girls have problems with their weight and subsequently become anorexic. In the fourth pattern, the fathers are overprotective of their daughters, which can lead to problems as well. In this pattern, the fathers express a lack of confidence in their daughters and feel that they must be protected at all times. These daughters are known to be able to charm people, yet at the same time they do not have personal confidence within themselves. Finally, in the fifth pattern, the father is very dependent on the daughter for emotional and physical support and in this particular case; the daughter becomes a person who more depressed, more dependent, and more anxious than other girls.

In this study by Montemayor and Brownlee, the parental styles of mothers and fathers were analyzed and differences were found. In order to determine these differences, the authors studied the satisfaction of adolescents, and three components were investigated: time spent with families, types of activities engaged in, and the degree of satisfaction in the activities. The authors contacted families by phone to see if they would participate in the study, and ultimately sixty-one families participated. The families consisted of white middle and upper class families, in which the average age of the father was forty-four and the average age of the mother was forty-one. Each of the adolescents were interviewed by phone, and conducted on randomly selected days. In the interviews, the adolescents were asked what they had done the previous day, excluding school, and were then asked to talk about the tasks they had performed that day. They were asked who participated in the task with them and what kind of satisfaction they felt in the task. The answers to the questions were then coded on the basis of father/mother absent or present, and divided into three categories such as work, leisure, and meals. Work included non-paid tasks such as chores, leisure included free time, and meals included eating and preparing the meals with family. The results of the study subsequently showed differences in parenting when it came to fathers and mothers. The children usually spent the same amount of time with the fathers and mothers, yet spent that time in different activities. When it came time for activities dealing with play, the children spent more time with the fathers, and when it came time for other tasks such as making meals, the children spent more time with the mothers. Interestingly when the children were asked whom they had more fun with when doing the various activities, most the children said the father. Although the fathers did not spend as much time as mothers in certai

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