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Commentary on: McMahon GE, Spencer-Smith MM, Pace CC, et al. Influence of fathers’ early parenting and development of children born very preterm and full term. Journal of Pediatrics 2019:205; 195–201.
Implications for practice and research
Fathers’ parenting behaviours are important to subsequent child development.
Further research is needed to review parental interactions and child development for infants born prematurely.
Context
Parenting behaviours impact on child development.1 Children are influenced by a range of factors, including social, cultural, psychological, financial and intellectual standing. Child factors also influence parenting behaviours (such as prematurity, neurodevelopmental disability and gender). Fathers’ parenting styles differ to mothers’, and this can also impact on child behaviour.2
There are many ways to measure behaviours associated with ‘positive and negative’ parenting. …
Footnotes
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.