Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters,
and the Pursuit of Thinness by Margo
Maine Ph.D.
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This book pioneered the term father hunger - the emptiness, and resulting
food and body image disorders, experienced by women whose fathers
were physically or emotionally absent. Based on ten years of further study,
this second edition of Father Hunger details the origins of the syndrome
and its effect on the family, with new practical solutions to help dads and
daughters understand and improve their relationships. An expanded
section for educators and therapists offers strategies and techniques for
preventing and treating this complex problem.
Personal Review: Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the
Pursuit of Thinness by Margo Maine Ph.D.
This is a brilliant book on the connection between a father's relationship
with his daughter and the manifestation of her body image into adulthood.
Time and time again it has been proven that the absence of a loving

emotionally healthy and nurturing relationship with a father substantially
increases a woman's risk for a variety of self-esteem issues, including
weight problems. The father is the template to which a woman relates to
men, sees herself in interaction with men, and perceives her values with
men, and men often are seen as the world given the patriarchial overtones
in society and commerce.
In this book, Dr. Maine concentrates on how the father can be instrumental
in protecting his daughter from the onslaught of emotionally-driven
complications in body image. Often when a young girl is pursuiing thinness
it is out of a need for attention. In adolescence this is acute in its
unconscious desire for a man's attention with the blossoming of hormones
and puberty. Mass media tells young girls that love is only possible through
physical appearance. If a young girl has no concept of uncondition love
from the one and only man who she needs it from - her biological or
adoptive father (NOT a stepfather, they are actually dangerous to
stepdaughters) ... she will be indoctrinated by the belief and it will be her
sense of reality that only her body and its state of perfection guarantees
performance-based ego-centric love.
Dr. Maine outlines the role of fathers, what they can do, and gives them
brilliant advice in this book on how to love their daughters and protect them
from the illusions of the world. BRAVO!
Once again ... daddy's girls get all the breaks. It is as if only the father can
guarantee immunity from predatory men if he sets a high standard in his
daughter's mind. The predatory nature of a mysoginist culture is often a
culprit behind why women are literally dying to be thin just to get bread
crumbs of shallow attention for undeserving men. Only women who have
their father's unconditional love stand a chance at being firm and rooted
enough in that love to see the myth and lie that being thin is the passage
way to being appreciated.
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