Cause And Effect Essay On Lisa Mancini'strenghters '
FATHER ABSENCE AND ITS EFFECTS ON DAUGHTERS
Lisa Mancini Professor Briggs WRT 465 11 May 2010
Mancini 2
Table of Contents I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Abstract Introduction Definition of Father Absence Divorce and Father Absence Other Explanations of Father Absence Effects of Father Absence on Daughters a. Teenage Pregnancy b. Promiscuity c. Emotional Effects d. Poverty e. Education VII. VIII. IX. X. Pains of Father Absence Definition of a Positive Father Figure Appendices Bibliography
Mancini 3
Abstract As the divorce rate in the United States climbs to nearly 50 percent, fathers seem to be disappearing from their daughters‟ lives. Research shows that girls and young women who have an unstable father figure are more liable to unplanned …show more content…
I didn't know why he hadn't hugged me yet, why he didn't act the way all my other friends' fathers treated them. He was so cold to me. It took 2 nurses to hold me down so they could take the blood from my arm. I was crying hysterically. I was only 9 years old. I didn't know what a blood test for paternity was. I didn't even know this man who so coldly told the nurses to hurry up; he had other things to do. But I know, I'll never forget that moment. Never. When the results came back stating that I was most definitely his daughter, I never saw or heard from him again. Go figure. I'm 21 years old now, and I've yet to meet my …show more content…
The study states, “ … early conduct problems and exposure to familial and ecological stressors consistently predicted early sexual activity and adolescent pregnancy. Thus, girls‟ behavioral, familial, and ecological profiles could potentially account for the relations between timing of the father absence and subsequent sexual outcomes” (Ellis et al, 14). From this quote, Ellis postulates that the girls‟ personality, environment and lifestyle they are reared in affects her risk of teenage pregnancy. In addition, the study, which was conducted over a period of at least 5 years, Ellis et al. also discovered traits of the types of environments the girls live in when the father leaves before age 13 (Ellis et
Lisa Mancini Professor Briggs WRT 465 11 May 2010
Mancini 2
Table of Contents I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Abstract Introduction Definition of Father Absence Divorce and Father Absence Other Explanations of Father Absence Effects of Father Absence on Daughters a. Teenage Pregnancy b. Promiscuity c. Emotional Effects d. Poverty e. Education VII. VIII. IX. X. Pains of Father Absence Definition of a Positive Father Figure Appendices Bibliography
Mancini 3
Abstract As the divorce rate in the United States climbs to nearly 50 percent, fathers seem to be disappearing from their daughters‟ lives. Research shows that girls and young women who have an unstable father figure are more liable to unplanned …show more content…
I didn't know why he hadn't hugged me yet, why he didn't act the way all my other friends' fathers treated them. He was so cold to me. It took 2 nurses to hold me down so they could take the blood from my arm. I was crying hysterically. I was only 9 years old. I didn't know what a blood test for paternity was. I didn't even know this man who so coldly told the nurses to hurry up; he had other things to do. But I know, I'll never forget that moment. Never. When the results came back stating that I was most definitely his daughter, I never saw or heard from him again. Go figure. I'm 21 years old now, and I've yet to meet my …show more content…
The study states, “ … early conduct problems and exposure to familial and ecological stressors consistently predicted early sexual activity and adolescent pregnancy. Thus, girls‟ behavioral, familial, and ecological profiles could potentially account for the relations between timing of the father absence and subsequent sexual outcomes” (Ellis et al, 14). From this quote, Ellis postulates that the girls‟ personality, environment and lifestyle they are reared in affects her risk of teenage pregnancy. In addition, the study, which was conducted over a period of at least 5 years, Ellis et al. also discovered traits of the types of environments the girls live in when the father leaves before age 13 (Ellis et