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【摘譯自：236Glamour Magazine February, 2007 p.236】

文：VIVIEN

在美國文化中父親花比較多的時間陪伴孩子，根據數字顯示以從1965年的2.6個小時增加到6.5小時（2000年）。而這些相處的時間對孩子來說，特別是女孩子來說是值得的，根據哈佛大學的心理學家凱德蘭博士指出，在孩童時期和父親相處的時間越長的女生，和相處時間較短的女生相比的表現較突出。在他的新書中他與113名女孩子做了深度訪談的調查發現，和父親的感情越好在學術上的表現也越好，也比較有自信。

還有另一個在巴爾地摩由兩個社會學家所作的研究也表示，在26為來自低收入家庭的女孩中和父親感情比較好的上大學的比較比較高，也比較容易找到一份穩定的工作，其他的有75％當了小媽媽，還有80％甚至曾入獄服刑，還有一半的人曾罹患憂鬱症。

Girls who are close with their fathers generally do better in life than those who aren’t.

American culture of fathers spending more time with their daughter and sons- the amount rose from 2.6 hours a week in 1965 to 6.5 hours in 2000, the most recent year for which statistics are available. This togetherness has a real payoff for girls: Those who are close with their fathers generally do better in life than those who aren’t. Dan Kindlon, Ph.D. , a Harvard-based psychologist who did in-depth interviews with 113 girls and teens for his new book, Alpha Girls, found that those who had the best relationships with their dads were the most accomplished academically and had the strongest sense of self.

Another much-cited study on the subject by two sociologists tracked 26 Baltimore girls form low-income families. It found that those with involved and caring dads were twice as likely to go to college or find a stable job after high school than those without such faters;75 percent less likely to give birth as teens; 80 percents less likely to ever be in jail; and half as likely to experience significant depression.