A developmental ecological model was used to identify child attributes, father characteristics, and familial factors associated with multidimensional father involvement with preschool children enrolled in Head Start. The relations between father involvement and children’s school readiness were also investigated. Eightyfive African American fathers and father figures were surveyed about their in...

In a prospective birth cohort study of 5295 girls from the UK-based Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), we examined the association between biological father absence in childhood and age at menarche whilst adjusting for antenatal indicators of socioeconomic disadvantage and maternal characteristics. We also examined whether exposure to maternal depression and financial pro...

This paper argues that Viola and Olivia in Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night (1623) are driven by their unconscious desire to possess their brothers who serve as father-figures for them. By applying Carl Jung's theory of Electra Complex and a related Freudian theory of penis envy, I will seek to make a study of the phallic and the post-Oedipal stages in the psychosexual development of the two ...

amine some of the issues and research relevant to male sex-role development in boys and to show some of the implications of father absence for counselor, teachers, and families. Early studies showed a significant difference between father-absent and father-present groups of boys. However, these studies were later qualified by the work in the area of surrogate fathers. In addition, the early stu...

We describe a case with molecular duplication of chromosome 17 (p11.2-p12) whose duplicated chromosome was inherited from a mosaic father. The patient has clinical manifestations consistent with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A), while the mosaic father has minimal findings of CMT1A. The father was found to be homozygous with DNA markers VAW409R3A (D17S122) and p132G8RI (PMP-22) which...

We examine longitudinal patterns of involvement of young, unmarried biological fathers (n = 77) in teenage-mother families using cluster analytic techniques that incorporate multiple dimensions of financial, emotional, and instrumental involvement. Approximately one-third of fathers maintained high levels of involvement over time, another third demonstrated a low level at both time points, and ...