An evolutionary model of conditional reproductive strategies argues that girls whose fathers are absent or make little parental investment experience early puberty. However, such a conditional strategy cannot be adaptive unless the absence of the girl’s father at the microlevel is predictive of some recurrent feature of the macrosocial system and early puberty is advantageous in the system. I a...

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...

Absence, and particularly the absent father, has been identified as a common feature in late eighteenth – nineteenth-century French novels. In an era which patriarchal order was changing King — nation’s father removed, it is unsurprising that so many of its novels have fathers. subsequent decades, children were left orphans wake Terror, lack figure key issue crisis masculinity arose France. The...

To address the problem of fathers' absence from children's lives and the difficulty of paternal engagement, especially among lower income families, government agencies have given increasing attention to funding father involvement interventions. Few of these interventions have yielded promising results. Father involvement research that focuses on the couple/coparenting relationship offers a path...

Deficiency paternity cases, characterized by the absence of the alleged father, are a challenge for forensic genetics. Here we present four cases with a female child and a deceased alleged father in which the analysis of a set of 21 or 22 autosomal STRs (AS STRs) produced results within a range of doubt when genotyping relatives of the alleged father. Aiming to increase the Paternity Index (PI)...

Two-hundred and eighteen low-income, minority, adolescent mothers were interviewed during the perinatal period and 3 years later about their social networks, including their relationships with their children's fathers. Few adolescents were involved with fathers at both time points. Relationships with fathers were, in general, less supportive and less problematic over time. Moreover, although fa...

Our study was carried out at a family from the Sahel (Tunisia). The father (index case) and his two children (son and daughter). The father beta-glucocerebrosidase (GCB) activity showing a deficit. These biochemical analyses are supplemented by molecular studies: enzymatic digestion and the direct sequencing. Two mutations were analysed, the p.Asn 370 Ser and the p.Leu 444 Pro. The DNA sequenci...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have proposed that having parents out of work may influence adolescent illness behaviour and school attendance. However, prior research investigating this question has been limited by retrospective reporting and case control studies. In a large epidemiological study we investigated whether parental work absence was associated with symptom complaints and increased sch...

Even with today’s technology, it still takes both a male and a female to make a baby. But is it important for both parents to raise that child? Many studies have outlined the value of a mother, but few have clearly defined the importance of a father, until now. New findings from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) show that the absence of a father during crit...