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The indispensable dad

By Alliance Alert

MercatorNet interviews David Eggebeen: "My most recent research shows that children, both girls and boys, do get additional benefits from their father. They not only add to what mothers do, but there is also evidence that fathers make some unique contributions . . . My own research shows that fathers uniquely influence their adolescent children. If the father has a poor relationship with his child at this age and does few activities with them, and if he has a low education level as well, it is more likely that both male and female adolescents will show signs of depression -- regardless of what the mother is like. There is a similar effect with regard to teenage delinquency."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).