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For too much time, we've considered fathers only a small amount more than sources of authority and monetary stability in the lives of these children. Yet cutting-edge studies attracting sudden links between fathers and children are forcing us to reconsider our assumptions and have new questions: What changes arise in men when they are "expecting"? Do fathers influence their children's vocabulary development? What are the potential risks and rewards to be an older-than-average dad at the time the child exists? What happens to a father's hormone levels at every level of his child's development, and can a child affect the father's health? Just how much do fathers matter? In Do Fathers Subject? the award-winning journalist and dad of five Paul Raeburn overturns the many myths and stereotypes of fatherhood as he examines the latest clinical findings on the parent or guardian we've often forgotten. Attracting on research from neuroscientists, creature behaviorists, geneticists, and developmental psychologists, among others, Raeburn will take us through the various periods of fatherhood, disclosing the serious physiological associations between children and fathers, from conception through adolescence and into adulthood - and the value of the relationship between mothers and fathers. In the process, he challenges the legacy of Freud and mainstream views of parental attachment, and also explains how we may become better parents ourselves. Inevitably, Raeburn shows the way the role of the daddy is distinctly not the same as that of the mother, which embracing fathers' value in the lives of young people is something we can all reap the benefits of. An engrossing, eye-opening, and deeply personal book that makes an instance for a fresh perspective on the value of fathers inside our lives regardless of what our family framework, Do Fathers Subject? changes the way we view fatherhood today.
