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Infant-father attachment: Infant and father antecedents
… research has explored the antecedents of infant-father attachment. This study examines paternal and infant antecedents of infant-father attachment in the first year. One-hundred-twenty infant-father dyads participated in a home observation when the infants were six-months-old. Fathers completed …
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Father Me Again
In this master thesis, the candidate presents a collection of original poems related to his glioblastoma diagnosis and wife’s pregnancy and childbirth, accompanied by a critical introduction, which explains his writing and revision process. The candidate demonstrates, through his critical …
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Father Involvement, Paternal Sensitivity and Father -Child Attachment in the First Three Years
This study examined the associations among father involvement, fathers' parenting sensitivity, and father-child attachment security when children were 13 months and 3 years of age. Although there were few associations among these variables at 13 months of age, composite father involvement and …
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Promoting father involvement in breastfeeding
Fathers influence mothers’ decisions to breastfeed and for how long they intend to breastfeed. Previous studies have found that positive breastfeeding outcomes are associated with fathers providing any type of supportive behavior. Above other types of support, responsive behaviours sensitive to the …
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Father Absence Effects on Military Children
The effects of father absence on military children were studied by use of a questionnaire and personal interviews. The sample consisted of U.S. military officers and their dependents stationed at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA. The study focused on the nature of the absence and how …
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My Mother and Father Were Astronauts
In these lyric-narrative poems, the speaker is under constant threat of violence, trouble, danger, or death, but that death is never realized. Rather, the speaker, much like many of the lives in the desert, not only survives amidst the constant threat of violence, but flourishes because of it; the …
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Understanding father: adult sons look back
… explored the experience of relationship with father from the retrospective viewpoint of adult sons. Healing the father relationship has become an interest for many men and gender specific research in other fields of social enquiry has recently investigated the changing father role, yet in the …
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The King-Father: A Biblical Theology of God as Both King and Father Over His Kingdom Children
… royal-family image of God as the King and Father over his kingdom-children is the consistent witness of Scripture and a necessary foundation for teaching and applying biblical theology. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction to this study. In chapter 2, I argue that commitment to the glory of …
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African American Father-Child Reproductive Health Communication
… partners and sexually transmitted infections. Father-child reproductive health communication was found to influence the timing of sex in other children however, a dearth of studies in African-American fathers existed. In this qualitative study reproductive health communication was explored in …
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Jeremy Gridley Father of the Boston Bar
<p>The purpose of the following brief sketch is to set forth as accurately and adequately us possible the history of one who, in a remarkable degree, demonstrates the advantages which accrue when family background and environment are augmented by proper training end strength of character.</p> …
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Father Involvement and Identity: A Theoretical Examination
… conflicting societal expectations for U.S. fathers, that they be highly involved in direct child rearing and that they provide financially for their children, a revised and integrated formulation of identity theory was developed and assessed as a guide to understanding fathers' involvement …
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Father Involvement in Intact Families and Stepfamilies
Father involvement was examined multidimensionally using fathers' and children's reports. A total of 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 …
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