Home-leaving decisions of daughters and sons

America's sons and daughters.

Hilary Valdez, MS, is a Survivor Outreach Services Coordinator for the U.S. Army in Tokyo, Japan and provides services that support the Families of Fallen Soldiers. He conducts support groups and life skills training to the community and leadership. My reassignment to the desolate, harsh environment of the Mojave Desert came as quite a shock. Leaving my family to join sturdy, hard core Marines ...

Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour

The prevalence of son preference and its implications for family behaviour in developing countries have received a great deal of scholarly attention, but child-gender bias is believed to be empirically unimportant in wealthy, non-traditional societies. Studies by sociologists and psychologists during the past 30 years, however, have documented consistent discrepancies between the behaviour of p...

DEPARTMENT OF CHILD STUDIES Daughters , Sons , and Homosexual Parents

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...

Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters

Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by departing from the standard parent-child framework and concentrating instead on fathers, mothers, sons and d...