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For female infants, father absence (as opposed to presence) was associated with a lower risk of dying, as well as higher nutritional status. That is to say, father absence was only a statistical predictor of infant death only for male infants. Such a sex difference has been observed despite a strong cultural preference for sons in the area.
This absence of the father, or "mistreatment", has resulted in the African-American crime rate being higher than the National average, African-American drug addiction being higher than whites, and rates of illegitimacy being at least 25% or higher than whites. [86]
In the United States like other nations, child care is not always equally shared between mothers and fathers. In the United States, fathers can have some paid leaves if they live in California or other states with similar legislation (partial paid leave). In contrast, Slovenian fathers have 12 weeks of 100% paid paternity leave.
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Social scientist V. C. McLoyd states that father absence covaries with other relevant family characteristics such as the lack of an income from a male adult, the absence of a second adult, and the lack of support from a second extended family system and conclude that it is the negative effects of poverty, and not the absence of a father, that ...
Custody Revolution: Father Custody and the Motherhood Mystique. Simon & Schuster. Bender, William N. and Renet L. Bender, The Deadbeat Dad Myth: Strategies and Research in Defense of Men in Divorce. The University of Georgia, Institute of Government. Braver, Sanford L., and O'Connell (1998). Divorced Dads: Shattering the Myths. Penguin Putnam Inc.,
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Harris also mentioned her father, Donald Harris, in her speech, recalling pleasant early childhood memories. “At the park, my mother would say, “Stay close.” But my father would say, as he ...