Fatherless Children - Men's Rights Agency

Early Parental Loss A Risk Factor For Adult Psychiatric Illness
Westport, Feb. 22, 2000(Reuters Health) —
Children who lose a parent early in life, either by death or permanent separation, appear more likely than others to develop schizophrenia, depression or bipolar disorder as adults.

Contact with dad means better language skills
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=23501

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- "Wait till your father gets home!" used to be a mother's ultimate threat. But with the two-parent household becoming less and less common, University of Maryland researchers set out to study how important contact with dad is to children's development. They found that even when fathers do not live at home, children whose fathers are actively involved in their lives tend to have better cognitive and language skills and fewer behavior problems.

Deadbeat versus disenfranchised Dads
Sue Price MRA Posted 16/12/97
In response to articles published in the Sydney Morning Herald
Dealing with Dads who don't care Adele Horin 6/12/97
Women won't go back to the '50s Kathleen Swinbourne 3/12/97

The Gold Coast Safe Cities Project - a response from MRA concerning the ill effects of divorce and separation on children and adults - May 1977 Posted 30/9/97

How children are damaged by divorce
The Times - London. Author Ian Robertson

A report on the findings of Dr Martin Richards who studied 17,000 children born in 1958 to classify how divorce affects children in comparison to those who remain in intact families or to those who lose a parent through the death of that parent.

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