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October 2003 1. Arendell, T. 1992. After divorce: Investigations into father absence. Gender and Society 6: 562-86. 2. Atkinson, B. R., and D. G. Ogston. 1974. The effect of father absence on male children in the home and school. Journal of School Psychology 12, no. 3: 213-21. 3. Beaty, L. 1995. Effects of paternal absence on male adolescents' peer relations and self-image. Adolescence 30, no. 120. 4. Blanchard, R. W., and H. B. Biller. 1971. Father availability and academic performance among third-grade boys. Developmental Psychology 4, no. 3: 301-5. 5. Chapman, Michael. 1977. Father absence, stepfathers, and the cognitive performance of college students. Child Development 48: 1155-58. 6. Clarke, L., E. C. Cooksey, and G. Verropoulou. 1998. Fathers and absent fathers: Sociodemographic similarities in Britain and the United States. Demography 35, no. 2: 217-28. 7. Colletta, Nancy Donohue. 1979. The impact of divorce: Father absence or poverty? Journal of Divorce 3: 2736. 8. Cortes, C. F., and E. S. Fleming. 1968. The effects of father absence on the adjustment of culturally disadvantaged boys. Journal of Special Education 2, no. 4: 413-20. 9. Ellis, Bruce J., John E. Bates, Kenneth A. Dodge, David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, Gregory S. Pettit, and Lianne Woodward. 2003. Does father absence place daughters at special risk for early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy? Child Development 74, no. 3: 801-21. 10. Gadsden, Vivian L. 1995. The absence of father: Effects on children's development and family functioning. Pennsylvania: National Center on fathers and families. 11. Hainline, L., and E. Feig. 1978. The correlates of childhood father absence in college-aged women. Child Development 49: 37-42. 12. Hetherington, E. Mavis. 1972. Effects of father absence on personality development in adolescent daughters. Developmental Psychology 7, no. 3: 313-26. 13. Johnson, Deborah J. 1996. Father presence matters: A review of the literature Toward an ecological framework of fathering and child outcomes. Philadelphia, PA: National Center on Fathers and Families. 14. Kagel, S. A., R. M. White Jr., and J. C. Coyne. 1978. Father-absent and father-present families of disturbed and nondisturbed adolescents. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 48, no. 2: 342-52. 15. Kruk, E. 1993. Psychological and structural factors contributing to disengagement. Divorce and disengagement: Patterns of fatherhood within and beyond marriage., 71-93. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Fernwood Publishing.

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16. Lamb, M. E. 1997. Fathers and child development: An introductory overview and guide. The role of the father in child development. 3rd ed., ed Michael E. Lamb, 1-18. New York: Wiley. 17. . 1999. Noncustodial fathers and their impact on the children of divorce. In The postdivorce family: Children, parenting, and society. R. A. Thompson, and P. R. Amato, 105-23. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 18. McLanahan, S. S. 1999. Father absence and the welfare of children. Coping with divorce, single parenting, and remarriage: A risk and resiliency perspective. ed E. Mavis Hetherington, 117-45. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. 19. Mott, F. L. 1990. When is a father really gone? Paternal-child contact in father-absent homes. Demography 27, no. 4: 499-517. 20. Mott, Frank L. 1994. Sons, daughters and fathers' absence: Differentials in father-leaving probabilities and in home environments. Journal of Family Issues 15, no. 1: 97-128. 21. Mott, Frank L., L. Kowaleski-Jones, and E. G. Menaghan. 1997. Paternal absence and child behavior: Does a child's gender make a difference? Journal of Marriage and the Family 59: 103-18. 22. National Center for Fathering . 1996. "1996 Gallup questionnaire on fathering." Web page. 23. Nichols-Casebolt, Ann. 1986. The economic impact of child support reform on the poverty status of custodial and non-custodial families. Journal of Marriage and the Family 48: 875-80. 24. O'Brien, Margaret, and Deborah Jones. 1996. The absence and presence of fathers: Accounts from children's diaries. In Men's Family Relations. Ulla Bjornberg, and Anna-Karin Kollind, 135-52. Almqvist & Wiksell International: Stockholm. 25. Paasch, Kathleen M., and Jay D. Teachman. 1991. Gender of children and receipt of assistance from absent fathers. Journal of Family Issues 12, no. 4: 450-466. 26. Parish, Thomas S., and James C. Taylor. 1979. The impact of divorce and subsequent father absence on children's and adolescents' self-concepts. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 8, no. 4: 427-32. 27. Phares, V. 1996. Demographics and trends. Fathers and developmental psychopathology., 7-43. New York: Wiley. 28. Santrock, John W. 1975. Father absence, perceived maternal behavior, and moral development in boys. Child Development 46: 753-57. 29. . 1972. Relation of type and onset of father absence to cognitive development. Child Development 43: 455-69. 30. Shively, Chuck. 1999. Examining the link between access to children and payment of support. Divorce Litigation 11, no. 5: 85-112. 31. Sigle-Rushton, Wendy. Father absence and child well-being: a critical review. Conference on Public Policy and the Future of the Family. 32. Simpson, B., P. McCarthy, and J. Walker. 1995. Being there: Fathers after divorce. Rugby, UK: Relate Centre for Family Studies. 33. Smit, Ria. 2002. 'New fatherhood'- fact or fiction?: The perceptions and experiences of fathers in South Australian Institute of Family Studies

Africa. 34. Stephens, N., and H. D. Day. 1979. Sex-role identity, parental identification, and self-concept of adolescent daughters from mother-absent, father-absent, and intact families. Journal of Psychology 103: 193202. 35. Stevenson, Michael. 1991. Myth, reality, and father absence. Men's Studies Review 8, no. 1: 3-8. 36. Svanum, Soren, Robert G. Bringle, and Joan E. McLaughlin. 1982. Father absence and cognitive performance in a large sample of six- to eleven-year-old children. Child Development 53: 136-43. 37. Teyber, E., and C. D. Hoffman. 1987. Missing fathers. Psychology Today April: 36-39. 38. Thomson, R. A., and P. R. Amato. 1999. The postdivorce family: Children, parenting, and society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 39. van Ijzendoorn, M. H., and M. de Wolff. 1997. In search of the absent fatherMeta-analyses of infantfather attachment: A rejoinder to our discussants. Child Development 68, no. 4: 604-9. 40. Young, Earl R., and Thomas S. Parish. 1977. Impact of father absence during childhood on the psychological adjustment of college females. Sex Roles 3, no. 3: 217-27.

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