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Father Absence and Youth Incarceration

Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2004
This study measured the likelihood of youth incarceration among adolescent males from father‐absent households, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N=34,031 person‐years). At baseline, the adolescents ranged from 14 to 17 years, and the incarceration outcome measure spanned ages 15 to 30 years.
Cynthia C. Harper, Sara S. McLanahan
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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, 2014
Absence of the biological father in early childhood has been linked to depressive symptoms in mid-adolescent girls. Earlier studies have linked father absence to early timing of menarche, and early menarche is a risk factor for increased depressive ...
Iryna Culpin, Jon Heron, Ricardo Araya   +2 more
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Father's Absence, Psychopathology, and Poetic Eminence

Psychological Reports, 1972
Ratings of degree of psychopathology and of probability of cross-sexual identification were made on temporally stratified samples of 42 eminent English and French poets. 55% of Ss had life histories indicating some possibility of cross-sexual identification; of these, 30% came from father-absent homes. 48% exhibited some symptoms of psychopathology; of
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Father Absence: Effects on Child and Maternal Psychopathology

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1989
The effects of fathers' absences during the previous year on 213 military children were examined, using multiple measures of children's functioning and psychiatric symptoms. Children whose fathers had been absent 1 or more months during the previous 12 months experienced significantly higher self-reported depression and anxiety, but these symptoms were
P S, Jensen, D, Grogan, S N, Xenakis, M W, Bain   +3 more
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Deconstructing the Fear of Father Absence

Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 2005
Abstract This paper critically examines Louise Silverstein's and Carl Auerbach's paper on Deconstructing the Essential Father. The paper provides research support for their position that children benefit from stable, consistent, loving, low-conflict parenting arrangements; irrespective of the gender of the parent.
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Fathers' Absence and Moral Development of Male Delinquents

Psychological Reports, 1983
To investigate the relationship between their fathers' absence and moral development, 40 urban adolescent males adjudicated as delinquents were randomly selected from a Juvenile Court population. 20 of them came from families in which fathers were absent and 20 lived with fathers present.
J M, Daum, V J, Bieliauskas
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Effects of father absence on women's perception of "ideal" mate and father

The Multivariate Experimental Clinical Research Journal, 1976
The father-absent group compromised 28 college women whose biological father had not lived at home after their 11th birthday. Controls were father-present college women. Both groups completed the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire twice: as ideal mate would, and as father would.
Vargon, Melanie M., Lynn, David B. (David Brandon), 1925-, Barton, Keith   +2 more
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Father Absence, Identification, and Identity

Ethos, 1973
To test the hypothesis that father absence influences sex role identification, a study of the effect of father absence on individual children using a series of simple psychological tests was initiated by the Harvard Laboratory of Human Development, under the direction of J. W. M. Whiting and T. K. Landauer.
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Sons, Daughters and Fathers' Absence:

Journal of Family Issues, 1994
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this research examines the extent to which the presence or absence of biological fathers from the home is associated with gender differences in the presence or absence of children and gender differences in the home environment encountered by children.
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Father-Absence Effects in Families of Different Sibling Compositions

Child Development, 1968
The effects of father absence for varying lengths of time and varying growth periods are compared with the effects of father presence, as reflected in college entrance scores on the ACE. Comparisons are made for only children in the 2and 3-child families.
B, Sutton-Smith, B G, Rosenberg, F, Landy   +2 more
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