Perhaps relevant, from today's Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-link-be...6?mod=e2fb
Obviously, since they gathered the information by asking the women, it might have more to do with how they see their fathers than how their fathers actually were, but still interesting.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-link-be...6?mod=e2fb
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The researchers used retrospective questionnaires to probe parenting and sexual experiences that the women—who were between 18 and 36 at the time of the study—recalled from high school. Sexual risk-taking included promiscuity, unprotected sex and sex while intoxicated. Older and younger sisters reported similar levels of mothering quality, whether their families were intact or disrupted.
But the most striking finding was in older sisters with a large age gap in the disrupted families. The father’s behavior, for better or worse, usually affected the older sister much more than her younger sibling.
If these older sisters communicated well with their fathers and felt close to them, they experienced much more parental monitoring and hung out far less with sexually risk-prone peers. But this kind of fathering had much less effect on the younger sisters, many of whom didn’t have enough contact with their father for him to make much of a difference.
These factors explained the older sisters’ behavior. “The prolonged presence of a warm and engaged father can buffer girls against early, high-risk sex,” Dr. DelPriore said. This doesn’t mean that divorced fathers can’t provide quality care. “A silver lining,” she adds, “is that what dad does seems to matter more than parental separation.” In other words, a divorce may be less harmful for a girl than more years with a bad dad.
Obviously, since they gathered the information by asking the women, it might have more to do with how they see their fathers than how their fathers actually were, but still interesting.
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