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Father loss and father absence in preschool children

Clinical Social Work Journal, 1978
The role of the father in child development is discussed. Children's reactions to the death, separation, or divorce of their fathers are explored. Implications for diagnosis are stated along with specific recommendations for treatment. Crucial factors in diabnosis and treatment were concluded to be: the developmental stage of the child at the time of ...
Sidney H. Grossberg, Louise Crandall
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The Absence of the Father

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 1992
The author discusses the role of the father in early development through the concept of triangulation. Three male patients are presented who seemed to lack images and memories of their fathers and experienced them as absent, despite their physical presence during childhood.
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Father Absence and Familial Antisocial Characteristics

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2001
This study examined family antisocial characteristics according to whether biological fathers live at home and agree to be study participants. Antisocial symptoms were tabulated for 161 clinic-referred children and their parents. Families with fathers at home had fewer paternal, maternal, and child antisocial symptoms, and scored higher on multiple SES
L J, Pfiffner, K, McBurnett, P J, Rathouz   +2 more
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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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Father Absence and the Attitude of Entitlement

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 2000
Father absence in American families is a recent, widespread phenomenon. Empirical research comparing single-parent, usually mother-headed families, with two-parent families has demonstrated various negative outcomes for children in single-parent homes. Many of these symptoms, such as deficits in cognitive and social competence, as well as internalizing
John Bishop, Robert C. Lane
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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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