ABSTRACT
Fathers are more likely to be concerned about their sons' achievements, their progress in the areas of motor development, cognition skills, and scholastic achievement. As it is with women, a father's attachment to his baby is influenced by his own experience in childhood. For fathers, sons are more likely to become the carriers of the father's unfulfilled ambitions than daughters. When a father first learns that his wife has conceived, a flood of different emotions assails him, some joyous, some anxious, many conflicting. Both the strength and the nature of these emotions will come as a surprise to most fathers. James Herzog described expectant fathers as falling into two groups. One group acknowledged their feelings about the arrival of a first child by becoming empathic with and invested in their wives. The other group was made up of fathers who expressed little awareness of their feelings.
