The Effects of Father Absence on the Adjustment of Culturally Disadvantaged Boys
who grow up without fathers, the influence of the father-figure on the development of the child has been of far less concern to investigators than the mother-child relationship (Nash, 1965). Reasons for the dearth of research in this area have included problems in assessing the degree to which a child has been without the influence of his father or other significant male figure, as well as the lack of natural opportunities under which to conduct such research (Ammons & Ammons, 1949;