What is it about?
This study examines the relationship between fathers’ adverse childhood experiences, their attachment style during pregnancy, and the potential association with fathers' perceptions of child behavior at 12 months of age.
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Why is it important?
The findings indicate that both fathers' adverse childhood experiences and their antenatal avoidant attachment styles are associated with perceptions of negative child behaviour. Parental postpartum mental health appears to mediate these relationships.
Perspectives
This work provides a strong rationale for initiating family interventions during pregnancy when antenatal risk factors are identified.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Antecedents of fathers’ perception of child behavior at child age 12 months, Infant Mental Health Journal Infancy and Early Childhood, June 2020, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.21862.
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