Why does every dad in the world always tell his daughter that she is pretty even though she is not?

I would suggest you read the book "Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters. " One of the points made by the book is that a father is his daughter's first love (not in any perverted sense) and that he should treat her how he would want her husband to treat her one day. Girls derive a lot of self esteem from how they look, and girls with low self esteem do things that girls with high self esteem wouldn't be willing to do.

Statistics show that teen girls with low self esteem and girls who don't get affection from their fathers are more likely to "turn to risky sexual behavior to cope with their feelings it creates many of what we consider our society's ills: teen pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted disease, and the breakdown of traditional marriage and family" (depression.about.com/cs/teenchild/a/teen...). According to one study, girls with high self esteem "were three times more likely to remain virgins than girls with low self-esteem" (altpenis.com/penis_news/20020401200313da...). If a girl thinks she is important and valuable, she will be less willing to do things for attention.As for my father, I remember only one time that he told me I was becoming a beautiful, young woman.

I don't think I will ever forget it. He didn't say it until he thought it. He built my self esteem in other ways, like complimenting things I was good at, and I'm glad he did, but the compliment that stayed with me was about my looks.

That Dad loves his daughter and in his eyes she is the most beautiful human being on the earth, those of us that are parents love our children unconditionally.

I cannot answer as a 'dad' but I can say that as a daughter myself, it was important when I was growing up to know that my father felt that I was a 'beautiful person' that he was happy with me and who I was becoming both on the outside and on the inside - and he was the kind of guy who talked about that all the time - yeah he liked my long hair and told me it was "pretty" but he also told me I was a great friend to my schoolmates and a good leader and all those things too. You guys know girls aren't just 'pretty' on the outside right :).

Your question is interesting. The answer is because "NOTHING is dearer to a father than a daughter," the ancient Greek playwright Euripides once wrote. "Sons have spirits of higher pitch, but they are not given to fondness."

Some 20 centuries after Euripides made this observation, fathers and daughters continue to experience a very special, relationship. It is not necessarily more important than that of father and son, but it is certainly one that requires sensitivity. The bond between father and daughter is intricate and compelling.

Without a doubt, a father's influence on his daughter's life is powerful. He is the man who will mold her personal values and set the standard of expectations for the other men who will cross her path--the boyfriends, professionals, co-workers, friends, and husbands. And he is the man to whom she can go for comfort, advice and love.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The dad that tells his daughter this is not just looking at her exterior, as good or bad as that might be. Dads aren't looking at their daughters as "women", with all the objectification that can entail (women as objects) but as a person.So when a dad tells his daughter she's beautiful, he's seeing all of her--her soul and spirit as well as what she looks like.

And he's seeing her past and some of her future, as well. The effects on the daughter can be powerful.

Fathers probably say that because beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder. Even though the daughter is ugly the father loves her for her and loves her beauty, be it ugly or internal.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Every father should believe his children are beautiful/intelligent and be proud of their achievements. Without this natural bond, parental behaviour would be much less reliable for the offspring.

Watch The Human Body and Human Instinct by Robert Winston (BBC series) - he explains the natural formative bond between parent and child very well.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.