source 4- anotated bibliography

"The Role of the Father in the Family." 22 Mar 2009 http://info.ag.vt.edu/vce/offices/newsletters/role_of_father.pdf.

The author uses sources such as University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System – District IV Extension Educators and The Parent’s Handbook,Don Dinkmeyer & Gary D. McKay. They seem to have done their research, and to be very credible.

“The Role of the Father in The Family” has many different facts that I didn’t see in other sources. Facts such as a child’s academic achievement could suffer if there is a negative view of a father figure and that a father’s influence can affect the choice of occupations, preferred school subjects, and role development of their children. This piece goes much more in depth; it has facts on how a father’s own upbringing greatly affects how he will act as a father. This piece gives the “four basic ingredients for building a positive relationship.” These “ingredients” are mutual respect between the father and child, making time for fun where it is better to have quality time and quantity is not the main focus, to encourage your child and believe in them and communicate that to them, as well as communicating you love for them, which is the final “ingredient.” This piece also gives research that suggests that “fathers who have participated in the delivery do more with their newborn child than fathers who do not. These fathers tend to participate more in childcare also.”
This piece has many helpful sources in it that will help me with any extra research that I may need when writing my paper. I like that it goes into how a father already has his parenting style guided by how he was parented as a child, that this greatly influences how he will parent his child. It has facts from the child’s actual birth to the child going into adulthood which will be very helpful to me while I am writing my paper. There is also a list of the sources and many other books to look into with this piece.
I feel that the information that was used and presented in this information was reliable; there was an area at the bottom that was strictly a list of sources that were used to create the web page.