Boys in Fatherless Families

CONTENTS
Introductory Comment
Focus of Review -- The Core Group of Studies -- Defining Father Absence
Juvenile Delinquency
Problems of Differential Treatment -- Are They Really Overrepresented? -- Connection Between Father Absence and Juvenile Delinquency -- Family Factors -- Individual Psychological Factors -- Community Factors -- To Sum up
Intellectual and Psychosocial Functioning
School Achievement -- SES Controls -- Types of Father Absence
Masculine Identity
Controls and Replications -- Measures Employed -- Long-term Prognosis -- Mental Illness and Marital Instability -- Recurrent Findings and Questions
Some Conclusions. Implications, and Questions
Recurrent Themes and Differentiations -- Fathers. Present and Absent
Research Considerations
The Family -- Un-families -- Context and Perspective -- Misleading Research Models -- The Type III Error
Some Practical Implications
Programs for all Boys -- Supports for the One-parent Mother -- More Men in Their Lives -- Public Attitudes and Information -- "Prevention"
References