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Title: Absent Fathers and Child Development: Emotional and Cognitive Effects at Ages Five to Nine
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1. Mott, Frank L.
Absent Fathers and Child Development: Emotional and Cognitive Effects at Ages Five to Nine
Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1993
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research
Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Child Development; Children, Adjustment Problems; Children, Behavioral Development; Children, Home Environment; Cognitive Ability; Cognitive Development; Divorce; Fathers, Absence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Marriage; Parental Influences; Parental Marital Status; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care

This monograph presents the following information in eight chapters: An introduction and overview of the issues on marriage, divorce, and parental presence including a child's view of family. The research sample: who are the study children? Paternal presence and absence in the early years of life including patterning and availability of father substitutes. Differences between father-present and father-absent families. Paternal absence and childrens' behavior problem. Father's absence and child cognition: the cognitive assessments of father's absence and cognition. Father's absence and the home environment including individual home attributes and behaviors, and a child development summary. The last chapter includes a synthesis of what has been found and what it might mean.
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Mott, Frank L. Absent Fathers and Child Development: Emotional and Cognitive Effects at Ages Five to Nine. Columbus OH: Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1993.