Differences between Behavior and Maturation: Developmental Effects of Father Absence

Hehman, Jessica A.; Salmon, Catherine

doi:10.1007/s40750-021-00166-4

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“…A variety of variables are known to influence both age at menarche and patterns of sexual activity (Thomas et al, 2001 ; Romans et al, 2003 ). Father absence is one well known factor that has been studied in some considerable depth (Draper & Harpending, 1982 ; McLanahan & Teitler, 1998 ; Ellis et al, 2003 ; Grainger, 2004 ; Guo et al, 2020 ; DelPriore et al, 2021 ; Hehman & Salmon, 2021 ). Belski et al ( 2012 ) found, in a US sample, that degree of maternal harshness when the child was aged 54 months correlated strongly with an earlier age at menarche and greater sexual risk-taking during teenage years in daughters.…”

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Lifehistory Trade-Offs Influence Women’s Reproductive Strategies

Dunbar,

Grainger

2024

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Objective In a UK national census sample, women from the upper and lower socioeconomic (SES) classes achieve parity in completed family size, despite marked differences in both birth rates and offspring survival rates. We test the hypothesis that women adopt reproductive strategies that manipulate age at first reproduction to achieve this. Methods We use a Monte-Carlo modeling approach parameterized with current UK lifehistory data to simulate the reproductive lifehistories of 64,000 individuals from different SES classes, with parameter values at each successive time step drawn from a statistical distribution defined by the census data. Results We show that, if they are to achieve parity with women in the higher socioeconomic classes, women in lower socioeconomic classes must begin reproducing 5.65 years earlier on average than women in the higher SES classes in order to offset the higher class-specific mortality and infertility rates that they experience. The model predicts very closely the observed differences in age at first reproduction in the census data. Conclusions Opting to delay reproduction in order to purse an education-based professional career may be a high risk strategy that many lower SES women are unwilling and unable to pursue. As a result, reproducing as early as possible may be the best strategy available to them.

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Lifehistory Trade-Offs Influence Women’s Reproductive Strategies

Dunbar,

Grainger

2024

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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“…On the one hand, it has been shown that responsible fathers, who are involved in the development of children as male role models, contribute to the development of a sense of social responsibility in children ( Randles, 2020 ; Donnelly et al, 2022 ; Kohl et al, 2022 ). On the other hand, researchers found that absence of fathers may lead to teenagers’ depression, self-loathing, and impulsion and increase their probability of random sexual behavior, whereas casual sex reflected teenagers’ indifference to a sense of responsibility for marriage and love to a certain extent ( Liu, 2017 ; Hehman and Salmon, 2021 ). Therefore, to reduce the occurrence of this phenomenon and enhance the sense of responsibility of teenagers, the fathers needed to be present.…”

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“…In addition, parental rearing patterns shape college students’ sense of social responsibility by influencing self-efficacy ( Shen and Li, 2020 ). Fathers’ presence promote social responsibility in adolescents, and parenting styles play a moderating role ( Liu, 2017 ; Krohn et al, 2019 ; Xia et al, 2020 ; Hehman and Salmon, 2021 ). Meanwhile, parenting styles play a regulatory role in many fields, such as early puberty and drinking behavior ( Ling et al, 2022 ), perceived father-child facial resemblance and academic performance ( Tu et al, 2021 ), and teenagers’ psychological flexibility ( Bibi et al, 2022 ).…”

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Fathers’ presence and adolescents’ interpersonal relationship quality: Moderated mediation model

Sun

Fan

2023

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionMost previous studies focused on the effects of fathers’ presence on adolescent development, but rarely examined the mechanisms underlying the presence of fathers on adolescent development. Moreover, previous studies ignored the impact of fathers’ way of being present on adolescent interpersonal relationships. Based on social identity theory, the present study introduced adolescents’ social responsibility as a mediating variable to explore the influence of father’s presence style on adolescents’ interpersonal. This study examined the mechanism of fathers’ way of being present on father’s presence, adolescents’ social responsibility, and their quality of interpersonal relationships; if fathers adopt a democratic approach to be present, the study examines whether teenagers are more likely to enhance their sense of social responsibility and achieve harmonious interpersonal relationships.MethodsParticipants were 1,942 senior high school and college students who responded to the Fatherhood Questionnaire, Social Responsibility Questionnaire, and Interpersonal Relationship Quality Diagnosis Scale. This study used PROCESS macro of SPSS 24.0 and Amos 26.0 to examine the hypotheses.ResultsEmpirical results demonstrated that (a) fathers’ presence is directly and positively related to adolescents’ social responsibility, (b) fathers’ presence is indirectly and positively related to the quality of adolescents’ interpersonal relationships through social responsibility, and (c) parenting styles played a moderating role in the first half of the fathers’ presence on social responsibility and the quality of interpersonal relationships. Results demonstrated that more harmonious interpersonal relationships were present among teenagers when fathers adopted a democratic upbringing, and this interaction effect on interpersonal relationships was mediated by teenagers’ sense of social responsibility.DiscussionThe findings of this study enrich the literature by exploring the significance of emphasizing fathers’ democratic presence on teenagers’ sense of social responsibility and interpersonal relationships. The practical implications of this study are that society should encourage more fathers to be present and guide them to adopt a democratic parenting style that will benefit adolescents’ development and family well-being.

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“…Currently, however, much less is known whether father absence is related to pubertal timing in boys [13][14][15][16][17], reflecting a general lack of research on male life history [18]. This gap in our knowledge is unfortunate, at least for two reasons.…”

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