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To be concerned with proper child development is to be concerned about making sure that children have daily access to both mothers’ and fathers’ parenting.

If Heather is being raised by two mommies and Brandon is being raised by Daddy and his new husband-roommate, Heather and Brandon might have two adults in their lives, but they are being deprived of the benefits found in the unique influences found in a mother and father’s different parenting styles. Much of the value mothers and fathers bring to their children is due to the fact that mothers and fathers are different. And by cooperating together, they provide these good things that same-sex caregivers cannot. The important value of these sex-based differences in healthy child-development will be explored here.

The fathering difference is explained by fathering scholar Dr. Kyle Pruett of Yale Medical School in his book Fatherneed: Why Father Care is as Essential as Mother Care for Your Child. Pruett says dads matter simply because “fathers do not mother.” A father, as a male parent, brings unique contributions to the job of parenting that a mother cannot.

Likewise, a mother, as a female parent, uniquely influences the life and development of her child, as Dr. Brenda Hunter explains in her book, The Power of Mother love: Transforming Both Mother and Child. Erik Erikson explained that father love and mother love are different kinds of love. Fathers love more dangerously because their love is more expecting than a mother’s love.

Dr. Pruett also explains that fathers have a clear style of communication with children. Babies, by 8 weeks, can tell the difference between a male or female communicating with them. Stanford psychologist Eleanor Maccoby, in her book The Two Sexes, explains mothers and fathers respond differently to babies. Mothers are more likely to provide warm care for a crying baby. Whether they realize it or not, children are learning at earliest age that men and women are different and have different ways of dealing with life, other adults and their children.

64. This passage is mainly about___________.

A. three experts’ different arguments

B. the introductions to the three famous books

C. mothers and fathers’ different parenting styles

D. the value of parents’ parenting in healthy child-development

65. Which can replace the underlined phrase “deprived of” in Para. 2?

A. provided B. kept C. taken away D. turned down

66. Which of the following about Dr. Pruett is TRUE?

A. He thinks fathers make more contribution to the job of parenting than mothers.

B. He thinks fathers have better communication with children than mothers.

C. He thinks the same-sex caregivers cannot bring children good things.

D. He thinks children need father care as well as mother care.