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Interpersonal Acceptance-Rejection Theory (IPAR Theory), recently renamed from Parental Acceptance-Rejection Theory (PART), entails that children react crossculturally with consistence to the types of behavior perceived as “acceptance” and “rejection” primarily by their parents. The majority of studies also showed that the higher degree of father’s presence as caregiver within family, the more children feel to be accepted by both parents (Rohner, 1986). This study explores the relationship between the presence of father as caregiver and the perceived acceptancerejection in childhood, by using the short version of the Adults Parental Acceptance-Rejection/Control questionnaire (Adult PARQ/C. Rohner, 2005. Rohner & Khaleque, 2008). 1117 students from various universities in Athens, Greece and in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina participated in this research. The multivariate analyses of variance findings suggest a fairly strong relationship between maternal and paternal perceived acceptance and father’s physical presence within family activity, as well as his involvement in raising a child duties. These findings are discussed in relation to empirical studies of the international literature of perceived paternal acceptance-rejection.

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On the basis of the European Value Study (EVS), this research explores values towards family, marriage and religion that are adopted by adults of five different religious groups: Jews, Muslims, Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics and irreligious or atheists. 42 questions derived from the European Value Questionnaire were employed on the importanceof family and religion, the conditions for the successful marriage, values that parents have to transmit to their children, attendance to religious ceremonies as related to prayer and other important life facts suchas death, wedding and birth, along with demographic issues. 132 adults participated in the research project from the broader area of Athens (59.8% females). Comparisons among all religious groups present astronger acceptance of family as compared with religion, of God in life and of religion as giving answers to fundamental life questions; this finding does not hold true for the group of irreligious-atheists, as expected. Religion seems to differentiate values for Jews and Muslims who accept higher importance of God in life, as compared to Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics, while the group of irreligious-atheists accepts the least importance of God.