The influence of caregivers on child and adolescent development and psychopathology risk is well documented over decades of research. However, for far too long, the focus has been squarely on mothers; it has treated fathers as indirect or secondary influences on their children's development, and paternal psychopathology, parenting practices, or attachment relationships have received relatively limited attention.1 This has been problematic both because it has fueled a tendency to sometimes blame mothers for the problems that children go on to have and because caregiving roles have changed markedly over the past few decades. Fathers, in particular, have tripled the time spent with their children over the past 3 decades. 2 Moreover, these estimates do not take into account recent shifts in post-pandemic parenting, which results in even greater involvement of many fathers with their children and underscores the need to expand our view of caregiver influences on child psychopathology. The meta-analysis of 98 studies by Zecchinato and colleagues3 is, therefore, an important step forward, as it considers links between paternal anxiety and the risk of a child developing emotional and behavioral problems in addition to anxiety and depression. Once relegated to the periphery in our understanding of risk, fathers are now in the spotlight, and with good reason.

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社论：父系焦虑与儿童焦虑及相关症状：一个被忽视的风险因素


几十年的研究已经充分记录了照顾者对儿童和青少年发育以及精神病理学风险的影响。然而，长期以来，人们的重点一直完全放在母亲身上;它把父亲看作是间接或次要影响孩子发展的因素，而父亲的精神病理学、养育方式或依恋关系受到的关注相对有限。这一直是有问题的，因为它助长了一种倾向，有时将孩子继续面临的问题归咎于母亲，而且因为照顾者的角色在过去几十年里发生了显著的变化。尤其是父亲，在过去的 3 年里，花在孩子身上的时间增加了两倍。2 此外，这些估计没有考虑到最近大流行后育儿方式的转变，这导致许多父亲更多地参与他们的孩子，并强调需要扩大我们对照顾者对儿童精神病理学影响的看法。因此，Zecchinato 及其同事对 98 项研究的荟萃分析3 是向前迈出的重要一步，因为它考虑了父亲焦虑与孩子除了焦虑和抑郁之外出现情绪和行为问题的风险之间的联系。父亲曾经在我们理解风险时被置于边缘，现在却成为人们关注的焦点，这是有充分理由的。