Sentences with phrase «absence of father figures»

Yesterday, Jack Straw blamed the «continuing problem» of gang violence on the absence of father figures.

Ybarra is keen on presenting the hobbies, pastimes and habits of his youth, focusing on cultural specific traits such as the homemade Latino sweets that include «paprika, Kool - aid powder and dipping candy,» or baking a cake with his grandfather (as intergenerational households are typical in Latino families), or hinting at the absence of the father figure.

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Applied social services may be concerned with the impacts of father absence on children's social development (including juvenile delinquency and engagement in criminal activities), on the reasons why men do or do not provide child support, or the role of father figures in child physical abuse.

Love, sex, survival, mothers and father figures are its themes, the last one foregrounded by the poignant absence of the fathers themselves.

Ronit's father's home becomes a strange refuge for the two women — only in the ghostly absence of the patriarchal figure can such a place become a safe haven for two queer women.

The young girls were raised as servants and hid away from society in the absence of their respective father figures.

[T] he various patterns of coresidence did not differ from the children in intact families on the outcome measures, suggesting that during the initial adjustment period after marital dissolution, the absence of a father - figure or the presence of biological - father - substitutes appear to have no influence on most children's intellectual or psychosocial functioning.»

Applied social services may be concerned with the impacts of father absence on children's social development (including juvenile delinquency and engagement in criminal activities), on the reasons why men do or do not provide child support, or the role of father figures in child physical abuse.