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Civitas, "How Do Fathers Fit In?." Civitas: the Institute for the Study of Civil Society 22 Mar 2009 http://www.civitas.org.uk/hwu/fathers.php.

This site is based on studies that have been conducted as well as facts and statistics that have been collected from forty eight other sources that are all sited in a long list at the end of the document. This site is full of facts and many helpful sources.
This site tells you step by step in a child’s life what it is that a child should be learning in life lessons from their father. It has from the time they are babies to teens and what should be learned at each stage and what the consequences are if these needs are not met. For example for small children, they should learn how to solve problems and how to get along with others from who ever may be the father figure in their life. I learned that “It really is fathers who can have a major influence on helping their children build strong social relationships during childhood and later in life.” That most of the things that we learn when we are young are from our father and not our mothers and that if we don’t learn these from a “father figure” when we are young, that the rest of a child’s life could and will be affected by this early in life. There is a section of how father’s fit into the family and a section for every stage of life a child passes through. Another example that was used was “one study found that primary school children scored higher on tests of empathy-the ability to see a situation from another person's viewpoint-if they had secure attachments to their fathers during infancy. These children were able to recognize how other children felt and took steps to make them feel better.
This could help me because I can use this source to help me show the effects of having a father figure from infancy to adult hood with all of the possible outcomes for a troubled teen compared to that of the teen who has a positive father figure.
The writer uses 48 different references and sources; he goes into grave detail for every stage in a child’s life as well as how the father influences the family.