Justin speaks with associate Professor Jenet Erickson

Topics included in this episode:

• The different roles that mothers and fathers can offer their children
• Mothers impact development by building core
• Fathers impact how children relate to the outside world
• Mums and Dads hold their babies differently
• A key predictor of college graduation is the involvement of a father
• Blue brain vs pink brain
• Fathers promote risk taking
• Nuturing is both holding close AND letting go
• Children benefit from both processes
• Daughters whose fathers are not present are more likely to engage sexually at a younger age
• Boys need to see their fathers showing love to women and children in non sexual ways
• Gender and Parenthood by Brad Wilcox
• Love is happiness.
• The intentional family is a ritualising family

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