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                     Wade F. Horn, Ph.D.
               National Fatherhood Initiative


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           IV. Positive Effects of Father Presence

     "Attempts to understand the Ôactive ingredientÕ in
     fathersÕ play that promotes peer competence have
     revealed that children learn critical lessons
     about how to recognize and deal with highly
     charged emotions in the context of playing with
     their fathers. Fathers, in effect, give children
     practice in regulating their own emotions and
     recognizing othersÕ emotional cues."

          Joseph H. Pleck, Associate Professor of Human
          Development and Family Studies, University of
          Illinois, 1993.

     "Children with an involved father are exposed to more
     varied social experiences and are more intellectually
     advanced than those who only have regular contact with
     their mother. Infants with two involved parents can
     cope better with being alone with strangers and also
     seem to attend more effectively to novel and complex
     stimuli. Well-fathered children have a greater breadth
     of positive social experiences than those exclusively
     reared by their mothers."

          Henry B. Biller, Father and Families: Paternal
          Factors in Child Development, Auburn House,
          Westport, Connecticut, 1993.

     "At the end of the day when I go to bed, Daddy tucks me
     in. We talk together about our day. He reads me a story
     to help me sleep. We pray together. That is my favorite
     part."

          Amanda, age 6, as quoted by Mary Kay Shanley in
          When I Think About My Father

     "Dad is my buddy."

          Josh, age 10, as quoted by Mary Kay Shanley in
          When I Think About My Father

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