>>13113382https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990927064822.htmhttp://archive.is/0eeNMGirls with close, supportive relationships with their parents tend to develop later, while girls with cold or distant relationships with their parents develop at an earlier age.
But it's the fathers' involvement, rather than the mothers', which seems to be paramount to the age of the girls' development.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060914154031.htmhttp://archive.is/H11gUChemical cues from fathers may be delaying the onset of sexual maturity in daughters.
Recently, experts elsewhere discovered a little-known pheromone receptor gene in the human olfactory system, linking the role of pheromones on menarche, or the first occurrence of menstruation.
Girls living in an urban environment also had earlier menarche compared to girls in a rural environment, even when fathers were present for both groups, and had similar levels of education.
Urban environments provide greater opportunities to get away from parents' inhibitory pheromones, and encounter attracting pheromones from unrelated members of the opposite sex.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120615103529.htmhttp://archive.is/IUq0SA longitudinal study found that adolescents learn persistence through fathers who follow good parenting practices.
The key is for dads to practice what's called "authoritative" parenting -- not to be confused with authoritarian. Here are the three basic ingredients:
Children feel warmth and love from their father
Accountability and the reasons behind rules are emphasized
Children are granted an appropriate level of autonomy
