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Though major gains have been made to narrow the gap in girls education and in some parts of the world girls are doing even better than boys (mostly in the United States, parts of Europe and the Caribbean) the World Bank states that “in developing countries, girls lag behind boys” and “many more girls drop out along the way than boys.”
Dr. Linda Nielsen, professor of adolescent psychology and women’s studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina has conducted research among her college students over a span of more than 15 years, and like other researchers before her, she acknowledges that positive fathering produces well-adjusted, confident and successful daughters who relate well to other men in their lives. Unfortunately, she says, fathers tend to spend less time with their daughters than with their sons, and many do not see anything negative about this. Nielsen also points out that “most of these fathers and daughters do not communicate, share personal things, or get to know one another as well as mothers and daughters.”
Nielsen states that “while they have young children, fathers carry the bulk of the responsibility for spending as much quality time as realistically possible with their children, whether girls or boys. But as they mature, sons and daughters can contribute to the effort too. Eventually there comes a time when the best way to turn the heart of a father to his daughter is for his daughter to turn her heart to her father.” Nielsen has been teaching a “Fathers and Daughters” course since 1991.
