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The following section is a discussion of three original scientific studies:
The first article, "Maternal employment and the development of the father-infant relationship in the first year," by John H. Grych and Roseanne Clark, captures the actual home environment in which father-infant relationships are formed, specifically in the absence of the mother. As Grych and Clark (1999) demonstrated in their study, the quality of the interaction of the father with the infant was affected by the number of hours the mother worked and was thus away from the household. They found that the father interacted better with the infant in a household, in which the mother either did not work or worked part-time only (p. 899). Furthermore, the quality of the marriage also had an interesting effect on the father-child interaction. In the cases where the wives worked more than 25 hours per week, the marriage quality decreased when the quality of the child care by the father increased (Grych & Clark, 1999, p. 899). This study falls within the realm of other researc
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