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Effect of Early Father Absence on Scholastic Aptitude

Lyn Carlsmith
Harvard Educational Review April 1964, 34 (1) 3-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.34.1.t23173u451jhu637
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Abstract

This article reports the results of an investigation into the effect of father absence on young children in terms of the patterns of math and verbal aptitude scores which these children later attain on college entrance examinations. The author relates the findings to sex-identification theory.

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