I am grateful to you for sending this. I was just today in a conversation with a divorced father of two young adult daughters. I was reflecting on the lack of fatherly affirmation in my own life and the consequences of that.
I've just started into the 3rd paper, and it's a heartbreaking list of findings upon findings... "Whereas only 10% of college students with married parents wondered if their father loved them, more than 30% of those with divorced parents felt this way." "Receiving too little fathering also leads to more troubled, more unstable romantic relationships later in the daughter's life." I'll be going over this one for a bit... so many references, I might be at the precipice of quite the rabbit hole...
Oh, by far. I reflect on these statistics and compare them to myself, my partner and my sister. I and my partner came from phenomenally similar, un-divorced households, but our parents were not those to share emotions. I wonder just how much these statistics reflect our own status versus those of divorced parents... All this said, I'm looking at this 3rd paper as an interesting reflection of our state of divorce, wherein a vast majority of the time the mother is the de-facto custodian, leaving the father in the challenging position to make sure they are spending time with the children. But speaking of rabbit holes...