Ideas involved in this model include: This model of child-rearing would involve, for example, allowing children to cry themselves to sleep on the grounds that picking up a child when it should be sleeping on its own improperly fosters dependence on the parents.
In his book Dare to Discipline, James Dobson advocates the strict father model.
However, some researchers have linked authoritarian childrearing with children who withdraw, lack spontaneity, and have lesser evidence of conscience.
[1] The strict father model is discussed by George Lakoff in his books, including Moral Politics, Don't Think of an Elephant, The Political Mind, and Whose Freedom?.
Lakoff argues that if the metaphor of nation as family and government as parent is used, then conservative politics correspond to the strict father model.