"A variety of studies have shown that fathers influence children's gender role development to be more traditional because, compared to mothers, the more routinely differential between masculine and feminine behaviors and encourage greater conformity to conventional gender roles" (Journal of Marriage and The Family, vol.50). ... The assumption here is that boys are trying to be masculine without the benefit of the same-sex role model and that the absent role model is portrayed as undesirable." ...

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