Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father and African American Literature

African American Father Involvement and Preschool Children’s School Readiness

A developmental ecological model was used to identify child attributes, father characteristics, and familial factors associated with multidimensional father involvement with preschool children enrolled in Head Start. The relations between father involvement and children’s school readiness were also investigated. Eightyfive African American fathers and father figures were surveyed about their in...

To my father

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Dedication To my father

Mats Dreifaldt (2013): Conduits in coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: Saphenous vein, radial and internal thoracic arteries. Örebro Studies in Medicine 93. A novel technique for saphenous vein (SV) graft harvesting, the No-touch technique (NT), has been developed at the Dept. of Cardiovascular surgery, Örebro University hospital. With NT the SV is harvested with a pedicle of surrounding t...

Growing Up Without Father: The Effects on African American Boys

This study examined behaviors of African American male adolescents, resulting from father absence. It further examined the extent to which there is a relation between African American boys’ behavior and their status as sons of an absent father. Effects of father absence was approached by researching articles and journals comparing African American males raised in female headed household to Afri...

In memory of my mother and father