Paternal bond

[2] In the book, Gender in cross-cultural perspective, Barry Hewlett showed that infants do create bonds with their fathers.

Questions arise about how fathers have the ability to bond with children if they do not have the same kind of role that mothers do in the baby's development.

Fathers find many ways to strengthen the father-child bond with their children, such as soothing, consoling, feeding (expressed breast milk, infant formula, or baby food), changing diapers, bathing, dressing, playing, and cuddling.

The roughhousing does not just have importance towards the bonds the children make with the father, but also helps to teach them life lessons.

While Europeans and Americans focus on rough playing, the Aka's do not allow this high stimulating environment to develop with their children.

In Hillary N. Fouts cross-cultural research, she had statistical data that supported the claim that different roles in foraging populations had an impact on the amount of time a father spent with their children.

Fouts took different foraging populations in Africa and compared their type of hunting and the percentage of time these fathers were seen holding their child.

[7] In contrast, the foraging groups that participated in bow hunting had fathers hold babies for significantly less time.

[7] This statistical data shows that different roles in a society influences how much time the father spends holding and interacting with his children.