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1. J Adolesc. 2003 Feb;26(1):63-78
The role of father involvement in children's later mental health.
Ann Buchanan
Eirini Flouri
Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford, Barnett
House, 32 Wellington Square, OX1 2ER, Oxford, UK. eirini.flouri@sores.ox.ac.uk
Data on 8441 cohort members of the National Child Development Study were used to
explore links between father involvement at age 7 and emotional and behavioural
problems at age 16, and between father involvement at age 16 and psychological
distress at age 33, controlling for mother involvement and known confounds.
Father involvement at age 7 protected against psychological maladjustment in
adolescents from non-intact families, and father involvement at age 16 protected
against adult psychological distress in women. There was no evidence suggesting
that the impact of father involvement in adolescence on children's later mental
health in adult life varies with the level of mother involvement.
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