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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is his father?[/quote]

How is this a helpful comment? News flash- if the father isn’t around, it’s probably because he chose not to be. Many men do this, even after marrying a woman and having a kid. [/quote]

It's relevant and was asked because active and present fathers are the best deterrents to high-risk adolescent behavior.

Read the research: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037335/#:~:text=Paternal%20involvement%20in%20the%20early,likelihood%20of%20adolescent%20risk%20behaviors

[QUOTE]Paternal involvement in the early childhood years is associated with positive child developmental and psychological outcomes over time, while, during adolescence, several recent national longitudinal studies have shown that father involvement is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of adolescent risk behaviors [4,5] and predicts less adolescent depressive symptoms for both genders [6].[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Fatherless children are more likely to smoke, drink alcohol, and abuse drugs in childhood and adulthood.[/QUOTE]

SOURCE: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/co-parenting-after-divorce/201205/father-absence-father-deficit-father-hunger

[QUOTE]Father involvement during their children’s adolescence can be significant and formative. Several large-scale studies have shown that father involvement is associated with a decrease in the likelihood of risk behaviors in adolescence, if the quality of the parent-child relationship is strong. In one such study, a positive father-child relationship was shown to predict a reduced engagement in risky behaviors by adolescents (Bronte-Tinkew et al. 2006). This proved to be more significant for male adolescents, suggesting that positive father-son relationships are important for mitigating risk behavior in adolescence. Studies also showed that adolescents whose nonresident fathers were involved in their lives have been shown to be less likely to begin smoking regularly (Menning 2006). These findings suggest that strong father-child relationships can have a significant positive influence on adolescents.[/QUOTE]

SOURCE: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-75645-1_2[/quote]

How is it relevant? What’s the OP going to do? It’s just an excuse for DCUM to pile on an OP who is doing her best.

Do you suggest she try to get back together with the father, who obviously abandoned his kid, so that there is a father present? No. Then it’s not relevant. [/quote]

I did not know if the father was or was not involved, hence why I asked where he was. I asked because if he was around but not involved, then she needed to bring him in ASAP as fathers are vital to curbing high-risk behavior in adolescence, as the research shows.

That’s it. No malice behind the question. Seems like you have some hangouts though about absent fathers that you need to address though.[/quote]

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