Özet:

Children spend most of their lives in the family. For this reason, the roles of mothers and fathers are very important in the healthy growth and development of children.The roles of family members are influenced by the structure of the society in which they live. Since it was thought that the main person responsible for the child's care in the past was the mother, research on children's relationships with their parents generally focused on the mother-child relationship. However, for a healthy child development, children must interact with their fathers as well as their parents. The concept of fatherhood and the roles of the father have changed and developed from the past to the present. The traditional, strict and distant fatherhood view, which was an authority figure in the past and provided for the living of the house, has now turned into a modern fatherhood who takes care of his child, plays with his child, spends friendly time. Fathers' participation in the care of their children has positive effects on the child's cognitive, social-emotional, sexual-role and identity development. Child health professionals need to create opportunities to increase their fathers' involvement in supporting children's care and development. Because increasing research results show that fathers contribute to the development of their children in different and often complementary ways than their mothers. In this review study, the changing fatherhood role and its contribution to child development, the role of the nurse in providing father-child relationship, and the results and suggestions related to the subject are included.

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