Women's psychological and behavioral responses to hormonal contraceptive (HC) treatment
can be highly variable. One of the great challenges to researchers seeking to improve the …

About one eighth of people are exposed to adversities such as abuse and neglect. Life
history theory suggests that early experiences of adversity are strongly associated with later …

Environmental stress promotes accelerated mating goals among adults with low childhood
socioeconomic status (CSES). However, little is known about proximal psychological …

This research:(1) implements a genetically informed design to examine the effects of fathers'
presence–absence and quality of behavior during childhood/adolescence on daughters' …

Patterns of paternal investment, including low quality of father involvement and biological
father absence, tend to repeat across generations with important consequences. Past …

This study focused on the challenges and hardships African American females have
endured through their lived experiences of not having a father present when growing up …

This qualitative phenomenological study examines the lived experiences of adult father-
absent African American women to extrapolate from their stories the meaning they attached …

Of the three parenting styles created by Baumrind (1966), the authoritarian style has been
largely associated with fathers due to previously reinforced unhealthy masculine norms …

Father absence is a social problem in the United States, and the African American
community has the highest rate of father absence. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive …

Intermittent father absence (IFA) refers to the occasions when a father is absent at irregular
intervals (Mendo-Lazaro et al., 2019). IFA can have significant long-term effects on the father …