Attractiveness of father in his daughter's view

A father marries his daughters: a case of incestuous polygamy.

Polygamy is a risk factor for incest. This case report of incest and polygamy portrays the dynamics that dominated this family's identity. The father indoctrinated and groomed his biological daughter and stepdaughter for sexual gratification in a cult-like atmosphere, and secretly married both of them. He justified his acts to the family members under the guise of religion, but he later denied ...

Father absence and gendered traits in sons and daughters

Research has previously found a number of apparently contradictory patterns in the relationship between 'father absence' (having a non-resident father during childhood) and the expression of gender roles, as well as other sexually dimorphic traits such as aggression. In the current study we measured a battery of sexually differentiated traits in relation to family background. 133 men and 558 wo...

A father and his son with systemic AL amyloidosis.

criminate between driver and passenger mutations, as was also shown recently in the context of FLT3. In the MOLT-4 and RPMI-8402 cell lines, we identified another transcript variant, which lacks exons 7 and 8 (nucleotides 648-1178). This results in a shift in the open reading frame with generation of a premature stop codon in exon 9. Consequently, a truncated form of JAK1 is expressed in these ...

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON The Relationships between Conviction Trajectories of Fathers and their Sons and Daughters

Does father absence place daughters at special risk for early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy?

The impact of father absence on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy was investigated in longitudinal studies in the United States (N = 242) and New Zealand (N = 520), in which community samples of girls were followed prospectively from early in life (5 years) to approximately age 18. Greater exposure to father absence was strongly associated with elevated risk for early sexual activity ...