Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked (31 page)

child support payments

chimpanzees

cholesterol

chromosomes; imprinted genes; X; Y

cigarette smoking; by fathers

Clark University

cleft palate

Clorox

colic

Columbia University

competition; father-son; male-female, in conception; mother-fetus

conception; father and; genetics and; imprinted genes; mother-father competition; mother-fetus competition

Concordia University

cooking

copy number variant

cortex

cortisol

Cosby Show, The

couvade

Cowan, Carolyn Pape

Cowan, Philip A.

Crespi, Bernard

crime

crocodiles

crying, of infant

Crystal, Jonathan

Curley, James P.

Darwin, Charles

deCODE Genetics

deer mouse studies

degus

delayed intellectual development

DelPriore, Danielle J.

depression; childhood; in fathers; marriage and; in mothers; postpartum; pregnancy and

Desrosiers, Tania A.

diabetes; gestational

diapers; advertising

Dias, Brian G.

Dickens, Charles,
A Christmas Carol

diet; cooking and; famine; of

father, and effect on children’s health; father’s work schedule and; food provision; pregnancy and; prehistoric

dinosaurs

disease; inherited

divorce; absent father and; joint custody and

DNA

Down syndrome

drugs

Dulac, Catherine

Durkheim, Émile

dwarfism

dyadic relationships

education; elementary school; kindergarten; parental; transition to elementary school

Edwards, Robert G.

eggs; fertilized; of older mothers

elementary school; transition to

elephant seals

Ellis, Bruce J.

embryos

Emory University

emotional synchrony

empathy

environment; toxic threats to fathers

epigenetic changes

Epstein, Charles J.

Evergreen State College

evolution; of fatherhood

evolutionary biology

evolutionary psychology

externalizing behaviors

facial expressions

Families and Work Institute

family; absent father; adult-centered; Aka; animal; child-centered; conflicts over parenting; connections between fathers and children’s health; division of labor; infants and; middle-class; poor; rodent research studies; traditional role of father in; work-family conflict.
See also
children; fathers; infants; marriage; mothers; teenagers

famine

fat

Father Knows Best

fathers; absence of; acceptance from; Aka; animal; attachment theory and; attractiveness of; behavior of, shaped by children; behavioral problems of children of; biological clock of; bird studies; breadwinner role; bumbling father stereotype; children and; children’s health connected to; cigarette smoking; competition with son; conception and; death of; depression in; as disciplinarian; division of labor; education of; effect of coparenting on children; effect on infant’s health; epigenetic changes in; evolution of; foster; hormones of; in hospital delivery room; housework and child care; imprinted genes; infants and; irrelevancy of; joint custody and; lack of research on; language development in children and; low-income; maternal gatekeeping and; monkey studies; as moral guide; -mother competition, in conception; of 1950s; of 1960s; of 1970s; obese; obsession with children; older; oxytocin and; paternity leave; play with children; poor health of, and effect on children; postpartum depression and; pregnancy and; prehistoric; research studies; response to infants cry; rodent studies; roots of; second marriage; sexual promiscuity of daughters and; single; son’s masculinity and; stay-at-home; survival of children and; synchrony; teenage; teenagers and; testosterone levels; toxic substances and; traditional family role; transition to elementary school and; unemployed; unmarried; work-family conflict; work schedules

FDA

fear

Feig, Larry A.

Feldman, Ruth

feminism

fetus; conception; genetics; health of; imprinted genes; -mother competition; movement

finches

fish

Fisher, Heidi S.

flexibility

fMRI

Foote, Thomas

Fordham University

fossil record

foster parents

Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Franssen, Catherine

Freud, Sigmund

Friedler, Gladys

frogs

fungicides

Galinsky, Ellen

gays and lesbians

genetics; attractiveness and; conception and; diet and; epigenetic changes;
Igf2
gene; imprinting; male-female competition; Mendel’s laws; of mental illness; mutations; of older fathers;
Peg3
; RS3 genotype; toxins and

Germany

Gershon, Elliot S.

gestational diabetes

Gettler, Lee T.

Gingrich, Jay

glucose

gorillas

government

grandchildren; father’s diet and future health of

grandmothers

Great Britain

Grewen, Karen M.

Gubernick, David

guilt

Hadza tribe

Haig, David

handsomeness

Harvard University

Head Start

health, and father-child connection

heart disease

Heinssen, Robert K.

hemoglobin

Hewlett, Barry S.

Hill, Sarah E.

hippocampus

Hoekstra, Hopi E.

Homo erectus

Hong Kong

hormones; brain; of father; marriage and; oxytocin role in father-child relationships; pregnancy and; stress; testosterone levels.
See also specific hormones

hospitals; father in delivery room; maternity ward

housework; division of labor; maternal gatekeeping

Huggies

hunter-gatherers

hyperactivity

Ice Age

Iceland

Igf2
gene

Igf2r
gene

IKEA

I Love Lucy

imprinted genes; Angelman syndrome and; failure of; kinship theory; mental illness and; Prader-Willi syndrome and

income; absent father and; divorce and; father as source of

Indiana University

industrial age

infants; Aka; birth of; birth weight; brain; colic; cry of; death rate; father and; father in delivery room; father’s effect on health of; mammalian; mother and; newborn appearance; obsession with; prehistoric; preterm; sleep; synchrony; testosterone levels of father and

infertility

infidelity

Insel, Thomas R.

insulin

insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II)

Inuit

in vitro fertilization (IVF)

IQ

Ireland

Israel

Japan

Jews

joint custody

Jones, Marilyn C.

Karolinska Institute

Kenkel, William M.

kindergarten

kinship theory

Kinsley, Craig Howard

Kishiyama, Mark M.

Koestner, Richard

Kotelchuck, Milton

Kuzawa, Christopher W.

Kvalevaag, Anne Lise

labor, division of

lactation.
See
breast-feeding

Lamb, Michael E.

Lambert, Kelly G.

language development

Lareau, Annette

Late Pleistocene period

laundry

law, family

Leach, Penelope

Leavitt, Judith Walter

Leckman, James F.

Lee, Harper,
To Kill a Mockingbird

Lepowsky, Maria

life expectancy

Lipton, Judith Eve

London School of Economics

love

low birth weight

Mace, Ruth

Malaspina, Dolores

“male mystique”

Mallers, Melanie

mammals

March of the Penguins
(movie)

Marfan syndrome

“marginal” habitat

marmosets

marriage; conflicts; delayed; depression and; division of labor; effects of coparenting on children; hormones and; infidelity; second

masculinity; father-son connection

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

maternal gatekeeping

McGill University

McHale, James P.

McLanahan, Sara S.

Mead, Margaret

Meltzer, Herbert Y.

memory

Mendel, Gregor

menopause

menstruation

mental illness; in children of older fathers; genetics of; imprinting genes and

meta-analysis

metacognition

middle class

Minuchin, Salvador,
Families and Family Therapy

miscarriage

MIT

monkeys

monogamy; bird studies; rodent studies

Montreal

morphine

Morris, Margaret J.

mothers; acceptance from; Aka; animal; biological clock of; blamed for everything; breast-feeding; conception and; death of; depression in; division of labor; effects of coparenting on children; -father competition, in conception; -fetus competition; foster; hormonal changes during pregnancy; housework and child care; imprinted genes; infants and; joint custody and; language development and; maternal gatekeeping; obese; obsession with children; older; oxytocin and; prehistoric; research studies; response to infant’s cry; schizophrenia-inducing; single; synchrony; teenage; unmarried; work-family conflict; in workforce

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

mouse studies

movies

National Center for Health Statistics

National Fatherland Initiative

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institutes of Health

natural selection

Nature

Neanderthals

nervous system; disorders

Nestler, Eric J.

Netherlands

Nettle, Daniel

neurofibromatosis

neuroscience

newborns.
See
infants

Newcastle University

New York City

New York Times, The

New York University

New Zealand

nighttime care; Aka fathers and; father’s role and

Northwestern University

Norway

Obama, Barack

obesity; central; in children; in fathers; father’s

work schedule and; Prader-Willi syndrome and

obsession; disorders; parenting as

Ohio State University

older fathers; autism and; effect on children; medical risks of; schizophrenia and; sperm of; telomeres and

oldfield mouse

Överkalix

oviraptor

oxytocin; role in father-child relationships

Page, David C.

pain

paleontology

Pancsofar, Nadya

Pappas, Marcia A.

Papua New Guinea

Paquette, Daniel

Parke, Ross D.

parthenogenesis

paternity leave

paternity tests

Peg3

Pembrey, Marcus

penguin studies

pervasive developmental delay (PDD)

Phares, Vicky

pharmaceutical industry

pheromones

Philippines

Philpot, Benjamin

pipefish

pitocin

placebo

placenta

play; father and; monkey; rough-and-tumble

Pleck, Elizabeth

Pleck, Joseph

poison frogs

politics

pollution

pop culture

Popenoe, David

postpartum depression

Pougnet, Erin

poverty; absent father and

Powell, Brian

Prader-Willi syndrome

preeclampsia

pregnancy; depression and; diet and; father in delivery room; fetal health and; hormones and; mother-father competition; mother-fetus competition; research on; seahorse; smoking during; symptoms; teen

prehistoric ancestors

premature birth

prenatal testing

pre-pulse inhibition

preschoolers.
See
children

primates

Princeton University

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Procter & Gamble

progeria

prolactin

prostate cancer

protein

Pruett, Kyle D.

Pruett, Marsha Kline

psychiatry

psychology; lack of research on fathers

puberty; early; link between fathers and sexual promiscuity of daughters

PubMed

pygmies

quality time

race

Rakowitz, Elly

Ramchandani, Paul G.

Rando, Oliver J.

Randolph-Macon College

reading to children

Redican, William K.

Reichenberg, Abraham

religion

remarriage

reptiles

research, fatherhood; on absent father; on Aka fathers; animal; on children and fathers; on connections between fathers and children’s health; on diet and future health; on division of labor; on genetic imprinting; on infants and fathers; lack of; on older fathers; on oxytocin and father-child relationships; on pregnancy; on schizophrenia; on teenagers and fathers; Y chromosome

Ressler, Kerry J.

rhesus monkeys

Rilling, James K.

Robertson, Elizabeth

rodent studies

Rodriguez, Alex

Rohner, Ronald P.

RS3 genotype

Rutgers University

Saavedra-Rodríguez, Lorena

Saint Mary’s University

salt

Saturday Evening Post, The

Scandinavia

schizophrenia; family history of; older fathers and

Schoppe-Sullivan, Sarah J.

Schwartzman, Alex E.

seahorses

Sear, Rebecca

sea turtles

seizures

self-esteem

separation anxiety

sex; mouse; parenthood and; promiscuity; teenage

sexually transmitted diseases