Fathers are easily worried too

Fathers Are Parents Too

Fathers nowadays are uncertain of their status and function in the family. This book sets out to show the part which a father is meant to play, and to discuss how he can best play it through the succeeding phases of a child's life. The two authors, one of whom is Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University in Philadelphia, have succeeded admirably : they have produced a lively guide to fatherh...

Too easily lead? Health effects of gasoline additives.

Octane-enhancing constituents of gasoline pose a number of health hazards. This paper considers the relative risks of metallic (lead, manganese), aromatic (e.g., benzene), and oxygenated additives in both industrialized and developing countries. Technological advances, particularly in industrialized countries, have allowed the progressive removal of lead from gasoline and the increased control ...

Parental smoking and passive smoking in infants: fathers matter too.

This study examines mothers' and fathers' smoking patterns in different kinds of smoking households, and assesses their relative contribution to infants' exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. It uses data from a cross-sectional survey of 314 smoking households (infants: mean age 10 weeks) in Coventry and Birmingham, England, examining reported tobacco consumption and objective measures of ex...

When Deer Are Too Dear and Elk Are Too Elegant

How old are U.S. fathers?

One in every six U.S. birth certificates have no information on the age of the baby's father; for more than four in 10 babies born to adolescent women, no data are available on the father's age. Information from mothers aged 15-49 who had babies in 1988 and were surveyed in the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey indicates that fathers for whom age is not reported on the birth certificat...