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mother-daughter relationship
The psychoanalytic development of women is influenced by complex mother-daughter relationships.
In fact, the failure of that psychoanalytic development and the difficult mother-daughter relationships may influenc/harm/destroy development of the daughter individual abilities to establish successful interpersonal relationships apart from their mothers.
ref: "the pianist","daughter of suicide", "grey gardens", "thirteen"

father-son relationship
It is characteristic the use of silence -and other non-verbal practices- to communicate feelings between fathers and sons that can be seen as rituals: football, card-games, wrestling, etc.
Fathers influence and/or reproduce of gender role stereotype.
ref:"broken flowers","garden state"

father-daughter relationship
Fathers have a considerable influence on their daughters' liveliness.
Most women have much closer relationships with their mothers than their fathers. Indeed, many fathers and daughters know very little about one another side from the somewhat predictable, stereotypic roles they play in the family.
The father-daughter relationship at adolescence is an outlier: It is distinguished from the other three parent-child dyads by its affective blandness and low level of interaction
ref:"on golden pond", "chinatown"

mother-son relationship
The emotional/physical absence of the husband usually structures these relationships.The point is that neglected or abandoned wives may unconsciously cast their sons as surrogate husbands, turning to them for support--if hopefully not for more.
ref:jesus and mother-mary, oedipus rex,"respiro", "sweet sixteen","psycho"

also
Investigation into parent-child relations of homosexual and heterosexual men and women is heavily documented in research literature, and a link between the absence of sufficient bonding with same-sex parent or role models and the development of adult male and female homosexuality has been proposed but not proved.