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1. Rattray, Garth
Presence of Father's Day
The Weekly Gleaner, North American edition, Jamaica NY, vol. 1739, June 26, 2008: pg. 8.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: The Gleener Company
Keyword(s): Criminal Justice System; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Presence; Incarceration/Jail; Mothers, Education; Parents, Single

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In 1998, the December 1 issue of The Wall Street Journal published Maggie Gallagher's article 'Fatherless Boys Grow Up Into Dangerous Men'. In it, she reported on a study by Cynthia Harper and Sara McLanahan (from the University of California and Princeton, respectively). Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth database with the records of over 6,400 boys over a 20-year period of their development, they discovered that, even after accounting for background variables (like mother's educational level, neighbourhood characteristics and income), boys raised by single mothers were (generally) more than twice as likely as boys raised by both parents to end up incarcerated. And, each fatherless year increased those odds by about five per cent. Other researchers agreed and found that boys of single fathers were not at increased risk of criminal behaviour.
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Rattray, Garth. "Presence of Father's Day." The Weekly Gleaner, North American edition, Jamaica NY, vol. 1739, June 26, 2008: pg. 8.