Understanding about the life history strategy (LHS) of Malaysian women who experienced father absence (FA) during childhood is limited. This systematic literature review (SLR) pursued a narrative synthesis methodology to investigate links between FA and six (LH) decision-nodes constitutive an individual’s LHS: pubertal timing, number offspring, first marriage birth sexual debut age, partner cou...

Despite the historical prevalence of single motherhood in Latin America and its rise in recent years, there is limited knowledge on the magnitude and consequences of father absence as experienced by children. Using a nationally representative sample from the 2002 Guatemalan Reproductive Health Survey, this study provides unprecedented documentation on the national prevalence of children's separ...

Numerous studies have indicated that father absence is associated with earlier age at menarche, with many evolutionary theories assuming that father absence is a causal factor that accelerates reproductive development. However, an alternative interpretation suggests that offspring may reproduce earlier in the presence of half- or step-siblings as the indirect fitness benefits to investing in th...

Parson's suggestion that difficulties in achieving adequate sex-role identification is a significant source of male antisocial behavior, leads to the hypothesis that father absence during early childhood will be related to antisocial acting out. A comparison of the responses of 51 "father-absent" male medical students to an anonymously administered antisocial behavior scale with those of 89 com...