What are the roles of each parent in child rearing?

Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the details of raising a child and not exclusively for a biological relationship.

Parenting is also a learned task that includes sharing customs and traditions, fostering skills for economic survival, promoting interpersonal and communication skills and helping children become self-regulatory, productive and self-actualized. It is also a parental functioning in a family, focusing on child caring and socializing. In particular, parenting is the tasks and roles that parents might be expected to perform regarding a child or children.

It is the activity of providing support, care, and love. Thus parenting focuses on three key words: responsibility, guidance, and nurturing of parents.

Roles of the Father in child rearing

Duty to Provide: This is one of the (if not the) most primary duty of the father in the family. The society has placed this role majorly on the father; to secure a home for the family, provide necessaries, sponsor academics, health bills and others.

Decision Making: Another important role of the father is decision making. Culturally and socioeconomically, certain decisions are better made with the accent of the father.

Duty to Protect: It is the duty of the father to protect the family. Protection here includes protecting the life of the family by reasonable means against physical, socio-economic threat or harm or otherwise.

Model for the male Children: Male kids have this natural tendency of looking up to their fathers.

Duty to train: It is the duty of the father to train the children.

Importance of a father

Impacts the child’s success. Chances of educational success increase when fathers are involved in parenting.

Contributes to healthy emotional development. Fathers who tend to solve conflict respectfully and nonviolently with their spouse contribute to their children’s solid emotional development.

Provides financial support. Involved fathers might contribute to the larger household bills. Non-involved fathers are also encouraged to provide child support.

Authority figure. Fathers have the responsibility of being authority figures, which helps ensure his child learns how to solve problems.