Though gender, racial, and ethnic disparities in health in the United States are well documented, it is less clear how these factors intersect to produce patterns of mental health outcomes among men. This study examined the presence of father figures in the lives of African American, Caribbean black and non-Hispanic white American males until the age of 16; assessed the current socio-demographi...

The article represents an empirical study of paternity as a male personality development factor in men. Consensus is emerging that responsible fatherhood entitles the father to establish paternity, be present in the child's life, share economic support, and be personally involved in the child's life in collaboration with the mother. Literature reviews on fatherhood yield numerous empirical stud...

Treatment for adolescents with sexually maladaptive behaviors is a continuing intervention that is changing and developing as greater understanding about this population of adolescents is obtained. The majority of treatment programs for adolescent sexually maladaptive behavior contain programming components that include cognitive distortions/thinking errors. Interviews including a conceptual ma...

aroline Hampton was the niece of Confederate General Wade Hampton III, who was later governor of South Carolina and a US senator (Figure 1a). Caroline was born at Woodlands, adjacent to Millwood, Hampton’s plantation home near Columbia, South Carolina. Her mother, Sally Baxter of New York (Figure 1c), died of tuberculosis at age 29 in 1862 and her father, Colonel Frank Hampton (Figure 1b), Wade...

Familial phosphoglycerate kinase deficiency associated with rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure: abnormality in mRNA splicing? Sir, Phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) is a glycolytic enzyme encoded by a gene located on chromosome X [1]. The clinical appearance of PGK deficiency is often dominated by myopathy usually associated with rhabdomyolysis, myo-globinuria and acute renal failure [2]. Here ...

To better understand the conditions under which fathers are more or less involved with their children, we tested the moderating influences of interparental relationships on the association between identity and behavior in a sample of 186 married and 93 divorced fathers. Results showed that identity investment and satisfaction were positively associated with involvement in childrelated activitie...

this article investigates father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology. the role of mother has been studied extensively, but the father's role in child psychopathology has been studied much less and is limited to what has been done in the past few decades. this article reviews some of the studies regarding father's role in child and adolescent psychopathology, namely att...

The absence of a father figure has been linked to very poor developmental outcomes for the child. During incarceration, there are limited opportunities for visitation between fathers and their children. The Baby Elmo Program provides incarcerated teen fathers with parenting training and visitation with their children with the stated goal of enhancing father-child interactional quality. Forty-on...

This article employs descriptive and explorative methods concerning father absence missional parenting. It identifies numerous ramifications caused by the failing role of men. Father has been a serious social issue in South Africa, which become more tenacious post-colonial Africa because economic reasons, untold fatherhood, refused fatherhood accountability, divorce dissolution households. infl...

C ase presentation: A healthy 32-year-old man presents for evaluation of exertional dyspnea and syn-cope. A murmur is noted, and echocardiography reveals marked sep-tal hypertrophy with a resting left ven-tricular outflow tract gradient of 68 mm Hg (online-only Data Supplement Movie I and Figure I). His father died of an MI at 38 years of age, and his paternal uncle died as the driver in a sing...