CONTENTS Introductory Comment Focus of Review - The Core Group of Studies - Defining Father Absence Juvenile Delinquency Problems of Differential Treatment - Are They Really Overrepresented? - Connection Between Father Absence and Juvenile Delinquency - Family Factors - Individual Psychological Factors - Community Factors - To Sum up Intellectual and Psychosocial Functioning School Achievement - SES Controls - Types of Father Absence Masculine Identity Controls and Replications - Measures Employed - Long-term Prognosis - Mental Illness and Marital Instability - Recurrent Findings and Questions Some Conclusions. Implications, and Questions Recurrent Themes and Differentiations - Fathers. Present and Absent Research Considerations The Family - Un-families - Context and Perspective - Misleading Research Models - The Type III Error Some Practical Implications Programs for all Boys - Supports for the One-parent Mother - More Men in Their Lives - Public Attitudes and Information - """"Prevention"""" References | Boys in Fatherless Families by Elizabeth Herzog, Paperback | Indigo Chapters