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This book was written to read for the father. It was written to show what it means to be a "father" and how important it is to child development. Each child consists of two biological parents and comes to the world and both play an important role in the child´s development. Both parents have roles in the care or harm of the child. For many years the work on child development has focused on the dynamics between mother and child. Fathers are generally assumed to be in the periphery of the child´s life, and thus have little direct effect on child development. However, the increasing results show that the absence of the father is a big gap for the child. This book was written to show and fill the results of this void. As you will see in the book, there are many factors that affect father´s involvement in a child´s life. Mother´s work, whether when the father wants to be a father, or how old the father is. According to their results, child development is affected. The father´s attitude, personality, psychopathology, relationship with the mother and relationship with the child, also affects the childs development.

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Babadagi, Zehra
In 2002, she won the medical faculty of Erciyes University. In 2010, started her child psychiatric assistant at Ondokuz Mayis University and finished in 2014. She is still working as a specialist doctor in Kayseri Education and Research Hospital. She is fluent in English at intermediate level. Married and a child´s mother.

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