As a divorcing parent, you may not have much love for your co-parent other right now. Yet, you must remember that your children won’t feel the same way. They will still have huge amounts of love for both of you.
People often talk about the importance of mothers to their daughters but less airtime is given to talking about how important fathers are to their daughters. Here are the three key areas one set of research found were improved by a strong father-daughter relationship:
1. Emotional resilience
The research found that fathers help their girls build emotional resilience because they often expose their daughters to risks and failures when playing together. The daughters learn that sometimes things go wrong but you can get back up and continue. It’s an important lesson to take into adult life when there will be plenty of difficult moments.
2. Improved earnings
Girls tended to get better grades when they had a strong relationship with their dad. This opened up more and better-paying opportunities for work. They also tended to be less averse to risk-taking than girls who did not have solid father-daughter relationships, and taking a few risks is often necessary to succeed in business and a career.
3. Better choice of partners
Women with an absent father can go looking to fill that role in their relationships. Unfortunately, that can often lead them into the hands of an unsuitable partner. They may put up with all sorts of nonsense or abusive behavior just because this person gives them some of the attention they grew up needing but not getting from their absent father.
Coming up with a parenting plan that allows you both to provide your children with the support they need might not seem easy in the heat of a divorce. Yet you need to make it happen. Learning more about the options to do this is wise.
