Does father absence place daughters at special risk for early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy?

By Bruce J. Ellis, J. Bates, K. Dodge, D. Fergusson, L. Horwood, G. S. Pettit, Lianne J. Woodward. Child Development, 2003

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, General Health Professions

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How Financial Constraints Influence Consumer Behavior: An Integrative Framework (2018, background): “Both theoretical and empirical work suggests that the first five years of life may be a critical period for influencing individuals’ psychologies (Belsky et al., 1991; Ellis et al., 2003; Quinlan, 2003).”
Fundamental Dimensions of Environmental Risk (2009, background): “Along these lines, harsh or neglectful parenting, low parent-child connectedness and support, and low parental monitoring are reliably associated with such fast LH traits as early puberty, early sexual debut, adolescent pregnancy and childbearing, and short life expectancies (e.g., Bereczkei and Csa”
Consequences of Parenting on Adolescent Outcomes (2014, background): “researchers examined adolescent sexual activity and teen pregnancy and found that girls who experienced an absent father by or before age five had the highest rates of early sexual activity and teen pregnancy [105].”
Ten Years of Longitudinal Research on U.S. Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Developmental Correlates of Sexual Intercourse, and the Importance of Age, Gender and Ethnic Background. (2008, background): “In univariate analyses (Bingham & Crockett, 1996; Ellis et al., 2003; Tubman et al., 1996a, 1996b), earlier first sexual behavior (and patterns of sexual intercourse activity) was associated with a range of problem behaviors, such as substance use, drug use, deviance and fighting, but”
The Parent-Child Relationship and Opportunities for Adolescents’ First Sex (2006, background): “Together with other recent studies (e.g., Amato, 1998; Ellis et al., 2003; Powell & Downey, 1997), the results here reinforce the salutary effects of fathers in the lives of adolescents, here in particular for girls (in biologically intact families).”
Consilience and Life History Theory: From Genes to Brain to Reproductive Strategy. (2006, background): “…status, family life stressors, conduct problems, dysfunctional parental relationships, sexual precociousness, early pregnancy and young motherhood, and poor parenting, as well as poor academic performance, mood and anxiety disorders, suicide attempts, and violent oVending (Ellis et al., 2003).”
Father absence, parental care, and female reproductive development (2003, background): “…developmental outcomes: early sexual activity, teen pregnancy, and unstable marriages later in life (e.g., Bumpass, Martin, & Sweet, 1991; Ellis et al., 2003; Glenn & Kramer, 1987; Hogan & Kitagawa, 1985; Keith & Finlay, 1988; Kiernan & Hobcraft, 1997; Kinnaird & Gerrard, 1986; McLanahan…”
Talking to Daddy’s Little Girl About Sex: Daughters’ Reports of Sexual Communication and Support From Fathers (2011, background): “In contrast, father absence has been linked to higher rates of sexual activity and teen pregnancy (Ellis et al., 2003).”
Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex (2006, background): “In fact, girls who grew up in fatherabsent homes are more likely than girls who grew up in homes with a father present to engage in the short-term mating behaviors described above, and they are more likely to begin reproduction early (Ellis et al., 2003).”
The Impact of Fathers' Absence on African American Adolescents' Gender Role Development (2005, background): “This may explain the finding that father-absent girls experience menarche at younger ages and are more sexually precocious than father-present girls (Belsky, Steinberg, & Draper, 1991; Ellis et al., 2003 ).”