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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Biological Father"”.
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Father-daughter relationship and teen pregnancy: an examination of adolescent females raised in homes without biological fathers
… adolescent females who are reared in “absent-father” homes (i.e., in homes without the biological father), a population at heightened risk for pregnancy. For this population, I hypothesized that the biological father-daughter relationship quality (FDRQ) as well as the stepfather-daughter …
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Risk factors and protective factors for depression in early maturing females
… the effect of early onset of menstruation and biological father absence on depression in females. Participants (n=46) were asked to complete a demographic questionnaire and a series of psychometric assessments. It was hypothesized that females who reached puberty earlier than their peers as …
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The legitimacy of Jesus : an Afrocentric reading of the birth of Jesus
… other words, that charge had a social and not a biological value. An investigation of the understanding of Jesus's birth in the Mediterranean world in chapter 4 shows that that charge came solely from Jesus's opponents whether they were Jewish or non-Jewish. An examination of pre-marital sexual …
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Stolen sperm : should the law absolve an involuntary father from the duty to furnish child maintenance?
… been tasked with adjudicating cases in which a biological father has refused to furnish child maintenance on the grounds that he was sexually forced into parenthood. These claims have highlighted the tension between biological fatherhood and legal parenthood, and have thus created a legal, …
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Father-son relationship quality and associated adolescent risks
… decades has advanced knowledge in the study of fathers and the protective role they play in the prevention of adolescent risk behaviours. Studies have often investigated parental relationships and their influence on adolescent risk behaviours but rarely the specific role of the adolescents’ …
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Values-Based Cartooning: Mothers Storying the Absent Father (A Case Study)
… experience of single mothers storying the absent biological father or sperm donor. Graphically facilitated interviews and workshops were undertaken with twenty single women aged between sixteen and fifty-two, all pregnant or first-time mothers of babies. Participant responses were filtered and …
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Adolescent Mexican Mothers: Within-Group Variations in Socioemotional Well-Being and Social Support
… focal adolescent mother) and partner (i.e., the biological father of adolescents' babies) support, and (c) socioemotional well-being. Fifty Mexican descent adolescent mothers were audio-taped during an interview that employed the AMAS-ZABB measure of acculturation, the PANAS measure of affect, …
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Fatherless Households: Factors Contributing to the Academic Outcomes of High School Male Students
High school males from fatherless households are less likely to receive the needed support to succeed in school than their peers from two parent households (Astone and McLanahan, 1991). Research indicated that the biological father's influence will sway the male child's overall development (Jones, …
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Interrogating the 'crisis of fatherhood' : discursive constructions of fathers amongst peri-urban Xhosa-speaking adolescents
… non-residence in South Africa as a 'crisis of fatherhood'. To interrogate this apparent 'crisis', this study explored how Xhosa-speaking adolescents - whose voices have been predominantly ignored in fathering literature - discursively construct fathers and fathering. Using Photovoice …
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Executive Functioning as a Prospective Moderator of the Relations between Maltreatment in Childhood and Externalizing Symptoms and Wellbeing in Young Adulthood
… disorder or other mental health disorder in the biological father. I examined EF at baseline (ages 10 to 12), as well as retrospective reports of childhood maltreatment collected at age 25. Externalizing symptoms and subjective wellbeing were examined at multiple time points between ages 16 and …
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Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide
… the differences between male paramours and biological fathers who kill children and hypothesized that biological fathers or step-fathers are significantly more likely than the child's mother's male paramour to kill their children due to relationship factors between the perpetrator and the …
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Family Studies of Sensorimotor Disturbances in Autism Spectrum Disorder
… with ASD (probands) and their unaffected biological family members. Previous studies have identified reduced saccade accuracy and increased variability of saccade in probands as well as analogous deficits in unaffected relatives. We also have recently demonstrated reduced accuracy and …
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Risk and Promotive Factors for Perinatal Mental Health Problems: Adverse and Benevolent Childhood Experiences and Contemporaneous Support and Stress
… adapted to assess social support from the baby’s biological father. Finally, all pregnant women completed measures of depression and PTSD symptoms. Women completed the FMSS and measures of depression and PTSD symptoms a second time at the postnatal visit.</p> <p>Results demonstrated that higher …
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"The Return of Adam to Paradise Lost: Camus' ""Le Premier Homme"
… the ramifications of Camus' initial visit to his father's tomb in St. Brieuc and the analogous reunion of the novel's protagonist and his father, also killed in the Battle of the Marne. This chapter unveils Camus' philosophical and political notions of time, manifest in the novel's opposition of …
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Pasal 44 ayat (1) UU no 1 tahun 1974 tentang perkawinan dalam perspektif UU no 23 tahun 2002 tentang perlindungan anak dan hukum Islam
… least if there is no accountability Li'an from biological father to responsible for the child, although it is clear that the child can not get their rights as legitimating of children, but with the rules that ensnared the liability of her biological father, so there is sanction in the form of …
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Pengaruh peran ayah (fathering) terhadap determinasi diri (self determination) pada remaja kelas X di SMAN 3 Malang
… This study aim to find out the effect of fathering toward self-determination in adolescent 10th grade in Public Senior High School 3 Malang. Respondents in this study amounted to 108 people with 54 boys and 54 girls. The research method used quantitative methods with an open questionnaire. …
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Fatherlessness among young black South African men
… further investigations to explore the effects of fatherlessness on children's wellbeing and to gain new perspectives on father absence within the context of black societies in South Africa. With that in mind, this study aimed to explore the impact of fatherlessness on the psychosocial wellbeing of …
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Essays on the economics of investments in health
… examine family-related (and more specifically, father-related) determinants of child and maternal health outcomes. The second essay uses panel data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to explore how childhood family structure through age 15 (as measured by …
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Motivation, Marital Quality, Maternal Gatekeeping, Breadwinning, and Father Identity: Models Of Biological Fathers’ And Stepfathers’ Involvement In Childcare
<p>Compared to biological fathers, there is far less knowledge about stepfathers in reference to their involvement in childcare. As stepfathers continue to increase in number in the United States, it is important to understand the factors that influence a stepfather to be more or less involved in …
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