In addition to career orientation, a dad can even have a considerable effect on a growing girl’s self-esteem and on her eventual choice of men. The father-daughter relationship often mirrors the kind of men daughters will choose.

                                        ‘Yes’ was the overwhelming response from women in a recent on line poll on whether their choice of men was influenced by their relationship with their father. For example, an intimidating father who avoided intimacy with his daughter might well engender insecurity and fear of intimacy, which could adversely affect her choice of men, while the girls who receive abundant support from their parents, especially their dads, report fewer psychological and physical problems both during childhood and later….