Gorshkova. [Features of body image in preschool age children, who were brought up in paternal deprivation in different childhood periods]

Abstract:
Here were described the body-image disorders among children 6 years in different family situations (absolutely without a father since the birth; without a father in infancy and early childhood, and then with stepfather; without a father since being three years old). By description of age and situational changes in body image child perceptions, author managed to identify, that the most pronounced distortion of body-image were founded in children who were without both parents since their birth. Father absence since six-years age lead to permeability of physical border, and the emergence of a divorce or life with stepfather — to breaching of its integrity. It was obtained the evidence, that mother cannot fully realize the paternal function, because of child′s bodily mismatch, lack of coordination, symmetry breaking and body image integration among children ones with no experience of interaction with father. A certificate was obtained in favor of, that at early child's age father′s task is to break the symbiotic relationship between child and mother, as far as introduction of new interaction ways with child, and the beginning of his socialization