Abstract :
For years researchers had concentrated on the mother’s role in child rearing practices. Much past psychological research upto the 70’s was devoted to investigating the mother’s role. As a result until the first half of the 20th century there was not much literature on the father’s role in socialization of children. The sudden interest in the importance of fathers can be attributed to major social changes which acquired in the 20th century. One major reason for the interest is fathering may be attributed to the women’s movement which stimulated re-evaluation of the existing concepts about roles of men and women. The present study was undertaken to find out the effect of fathers absence on socialization and personality development of children. Another major objective of the study was to find out the difference in personality development of children of father absent families of states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.
Keyword :
Personality Development, Socialization, Parenthood, Social Development