Do men usually turn out more like their mothers or their fathers?

Question

personality-wise that is

Answer 1

Hmmm...that's a tough one. When I'm around guys I'm more like my dad, but I tend to be slightly more like my mom when talking to women.

So I guess the answer is....I don't know.

Answer 2

It depends on all sorts of things. I think they get different things from different parents...but it depends on the parenting styles and the parents. It is also genetics. An extremely applicable example would be myself. I hardly knew my father because he died when I was a small child. I do know a few things though, because I was 3 1/2 when he did, and I also know the things that everybody tells me about him. He and I are extremely, extremely, extremely similar. We like the same sayings, stand the same way, look the same way, eat the same way, think the same way- everything the same way. But we are two completely different people in a very fundamental way- the kind of men we are/were. There is also a large influence on me in the fact that he died and I didn't have that influence. This is a very interesting question to me because I can really relate to it and answer it with experience. Without going on for another hour....I guess I'll just cut to the chase and give you your answer. I would say it varies a lot, depends on the situation, all sorts of things....but if I had to pick a trend, I would father a son's father over his mother. There is a reason 70% of the people in prison either A) had no father or B) hated their father with a passion.

Answer 3

I think it depends on the mother and on the father and on what the child, himself, finds admirable.

Children look at their parents and think either, "That's what I want to be like" or else, "I will never, ever, be like that".

It also depends on how much time each parent spends with the child while his personality is developing. A father who works long hours and isn't awfully involved with his child is likely to get a child who has had her personality molded primarily by his mother because she will be the one the child is most strongly attached to and emulates and listens to.

It may also depend on birth order. A first-born child tends to be "the mother's child". Second borns tend to become "the father's child" by default. Third borns who are the "baby of the family" tend to be the "mother's child". When a first-born child is very much peas-in-a-pod with his mother the next child may differentiate himself by NOT being like either of those two "peas-in-a-pod" who make him feel left out. As a result, he may decide to copy his father instead.

That's part of the way it also depends on a child's emotional needs. A child who feels very small and helpless around a somewhat verbally abusive father may admire that father's abililty to make everyone a little nervous when he shows up, so that child may copy his father even if he didn't like his behavior. Another child of the same father may instead see his mother as strong in the face of being treated so poorly or may admire her kindness to him when he is so uncomfortable around the overbearing father, and that child will become like his mother.

Answer 4

Well considering all the men in the world arent acting all motherly, and womenly all the time, I'm gonna guess they turn out more like their fathers.

Answer 5

Im one of 5 kids and all of us has a bit of my mom and dad but our own character shines through all that. So, a son will have both mom and dad qualities but his personality gets developed in lifes lessons.

Answer 6

You are not your mother or fatther, it all depens on you, and how you were raised, and how close you are to your mother and father. Life is what you make it , just be your self.

Answer 7

Depends on who they are around more. Being that they are male though, for the most part they take after their dad.

Answer 8

there like both they have behaviors and temperament from both i can see allot of myself and allot of my ex in all of our kids and my kids grew up with out there dad so figure that one out

Answer 9

yeah definitely,
at least we get influenced by their character and behaviour.