The role of fathers in child and adolescent psychopathology: make room for daddy.

@article{Phares1992TheRO,
  title={The role of fathers in child and adolescent psychopathology: make room for daddy.},
  author={Vicky Phares and Bruce E Compas},
  journal={Psychological bulletin},
  year={1992},
  volume={111 3},
  pages={
          387-412
        }
}
This review summarizes research concerning the relation between paternal factors and child and adolescent psychopathology. When compared with mothers, fathers continue to be dramatically underrepresented in developmental research on psychopathology. However, findings from studies of children of clinically referred fathers and nonreferred samples of children and their fathers indicate that there is substantial association between paternal characteristics and child and adolescent psychopathology… 
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