Disrupted relationships: Adult daughters and father absence
Contemporary Nurse, 2007 Changes in family structures have resulted in many children growing up in non-traditional families, where their father is not resident in the family home. Father absence that occurs as a result of the breakdown of the parental relationship is associated with life adversity and less than optimal outcomes for children and adolescents.
East, Leah +2 more
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Effect of Father-Love Absence on Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Hope
Behavioral SciencesFather love is recognized as an important factor in personal development. While previous research has extensively examined the adverse effects of father-love absence on subjective well-being, it is important to note that these studies often treated ...
Wang Peng, Rui Hu, Yanhui Xiang
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The Causal Effects of Father Absence. [PDF]
Annu Rev Sociol, 2013 The literature on father absence is frequently criticized for its use of cross-sectional data and methods that fail to take account of possible omitted variable bias and reverse causality. We review studies that have responded to this critique by employing a variety of innovative research designs to identify the causal effect of father absence ...
McLanahan S, Tach L, Schneider D.
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The meaning of the absence of the father in the development of infants [PDF]
, 1994 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The research explores the meaning and concomitant effects of the absence of the father in the development of very young children by observing three cases of
Mazliach, Yaron
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Sibling Relatedness Rather Than Father Absence Predicts Earlier Age at Menarche in ELSPAC Cohort [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2019 Julie Bienertova Vasku +2 more
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? Investment in Siblings for Inclusive Fitness Benefits, Not Father Absence, Predicts Earlier Age at Menarche [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2017 Daniel Major-Smith
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Father absence as a risk factor for child neglect and abuse: A biblical and multidisciplinary approach to transform broken families in the South African landscape [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023 This paper aims to address father absence as a key contributory factor to child neglect and abuse and a cause of disrupted and unstable families by means of an explorative literature review. The study follows a biblical and multidisciplinary approach and
Prof Fazel Ebrihiam Freeks +1 more
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A fatherless South Africa: The importance of missional parenting and the role of the church
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 This article employs descriptive and explorative methods concerning father absence and missional parenting. It identifies numerous ramifications caused by father absence and the failing role of men. Father absence has been a serious social issue in South
Fazel E. Freeks
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Transforming Fatherless Children through Faith as a Strength Perspective: Challenging Father-Absence as a Social ill in South African Society [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 The Children’s Act, 38 of 2005, (South Africa) states that children in need of care and protection face social ills such as father absence and in addition some children abuse alcohol and drugs, among other things. The Act defines the essence of parental
Professor Fazel Ebrihiam Freeks
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Early Childhood Father Absence and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Girls From a UK Cohort: The Mediating Role of Early Menarche [PDF]
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2015 Iryna Culpin, Jon Heron, Ricardo Araya
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