Fathers Matter

Parental smoking and passive smoking in infants: fathers matter too.

This study examines mothers' and fathers' smoking patterns in different kinds of smoking households, and assesses their relative contribution to infants' exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. It uses data from a cross-sectional survey of 314 smoking households (infants: mean age 10 weeks) in Coventry and Birmingham, England, examining reported tobacco consumption and objective measures of ex...

Children Ofaddicted Fathers

The research compares 5-12 year old children of addicted fathers with those of non-addicted fathers. This experiment was carried out on one hundred families of the addict, in comparison to another one hundred non-addicted families. These children have not been subjects for social scientists and health experts because of the following facts: 1) They live with their parents, 2) They are not crimi...

Neglected Fathers

Fathers matter: male body mass affects life-history traits in a size-dimorphic seabird

One of the predicted consequences of climate change is a shift in body mass distributions within animal populations. Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life-history traits and consequently population dynamics. Over the past decades, the wandering albatross-a pelagic seabird providing bi-parental care with marked sexual size dimorphism...

Does the education of peers’ mothers and fathers matter? Mechanisms of parental spillovers in the classroom∗

Research finds that parental characteristics of classroom peers, such as education, income, matters for achievement. We use rich survey data provided in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey to explore whether mother’s and/or father’s education creates spillover in the classroom and why the parental education of classroom peers matters. We distinguish between several possible channels of effe...