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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Stepfather"”.
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Sexually abusive families: A comparison of father and stepfather incest offenders and their spouses
… and family environments of father and stepfather incest offenders and their spouses. Further comparisons of the sexually abusive behaviors were conducted between both groups of offenders. The sample consisted of 24 father offenders and spouses and 21 stepfather offenders and spouses who …
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The Hat
… the winter holidays for the funeral of her stepfather Vince, who has died suddenly of a stroke. Adding to the tension is the approach of Christmas, supposedly a happy time, and the vivid memories of a stalker boyfriend who disappeared about a year ago. Allison's past includes troubled family …
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WHAT IS DONE IN THE DARK WILL COME TO LIGHT: A NOVELLA
… graduate learns that her father is in fact her stepfather. Her mother refuses to reveal her biological father’s identity. She takes a trip to her native country in search of answers and uncovers more family secrets. It is a story about immigration, culture, family, and …
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The effects of foster care residence and age of child on credibility of child sexual abuse allegations
… of age) who either resided with her mother and stepfather or foster parents. The girl was described as a past sex abuse victim with behavioral and emotional difficulties who is currently alleging sexual abuse by the stepfather or foster father. In a multivariate analysis of variance controlling …
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Corporal Punishment and Its Relation to Race, Psychological Well-Being, and Parental Relationship
… discipline. College students who grew up with a stepfather were expected to be more likely to report having received corporal punishment as a disciplinary technique during childhood than were biological parents. African-American college students were expected to report higher levels of corporal …
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The Effects of Family Type Upon Self-Esteem in Adolescent Males
… from intact families, 37 male adolescents from stepfather families and 59 male adolescents in mother-only families. Two instruments were used: (a) the Piers-Harris Self-Concept Test; {b) a general questionnaire consisting of 45 questions concerninq activities, time spent at home, kinds of …
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Father Involvement in Intact Families and Stepfamilies
… 61 fathers and 143 children (intact families and stepfather families) from the Avon Brothers and Sisters Study (ABSS) participated in the current study. Measures of father involvement including engagement in shared activity, monitoring, positivity, and negativity were completed by fathers and …
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How Parenting Stress and Discouragement Impact Functioning Within Stepfamilies
… whether the stepparent was a stepmother or stepfather, or whether the marriage had been formed more or less than two years was also considered. One assumption made was that increased parenting stress and discouragement will lead to decreased family functioning. Other assumptions were that …
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Motivation, Marital Quality, Maternal Gatekeeping, Breadwinning, and Father Identity: Models Of Biological Fathers’ And Stepfathers’ Involvement In Childcare
… 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 the care of their …
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Father-daughter relationship and teen pregnancy: an examination of adolescent females raised in homes without biological fathers
… relationship quality (FDRQ) as well as the stepfather-daughter relationship quality (SFDRQ) would predict the likelihood of teenage pregnancy, after controlling for sociodemographic risk factors and other known correlates of teen pregnancy. Further, based on the theory of “Father Hunger” …
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Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide
… at the hands of their biological father, male-stepfather, or biological mother's male paramours between the years 1999 through 2005 in Miami-Dade County were be studied. The age of the perpetrators and child victims killed by the two groups were compared using an independent samples t-test, …
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Negotiating Boyhood and Victimisation in the Adolescent Male Rape Novel
… exemplarily analysing an intrafamilial rape by a stepfather in Alex Sanchez’ *Bait* (2009) and an extrafamilial stranger rape in Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson’s *Target* (2003). I first argue that the boys seek to re-enact a liminal rite through their self-harming behaviour to regain control over their …
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Podmínky přijetí nevlastního otce dítětem a život ve složené rodině očima dětí a nevlastních otců
Předkládaná práce se zabývá tematikou složených rodin, nevlastního otcovství a zkušeností dětí a nevlastních otců ve složených rodinách. Práce měla tři hlavní cíle: a) zjistit, nakolik děti ze složených rodin přijímají svého nevlastního otce za člena nejbližší rodiny, b) zmapovat výchovné styly ve …