Monografiya osveshchaet rezul'taty dissertatsionnogo issledovaniya spetsifiki fenomena ottsovstva v sovremennoy kul'ture, ego strukturnykh sostavlyayushchikh, vliyaniya ottsovstva na razvitie lichnosti rebenka i samogo muzhchiny-ottsa. Otrazheny sovremennye otechestvennye i zarubezhnye podkhody k strukture vzaimodeystviya v diade otets-rebenok, ponimaniyu roli i funktsiy ottsa v zhizni rebenka, v tom chisle i v mladencheskom periode, vliyaniyu supruzheskikh otnosheniy na razvitie rebenka. Materialy prednaznacheny dlya spetsialistov v oblasti psikhologii, studentov psikhologicheskikh, psikhologo-pedagogicheskikh i psikhologo-meditsinskikh spetsial'nostey, rabotnikov sfery obrazovaniya.