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Originally Posted by Sage
you're not taking into account WHY the children are fatherless to begin with. Are their parents middle class and white, and just got a divorce, or are these children from poor famlies with fathers who are in prison?
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc- the fallacy of saying that "because B happens after A, B happens BECAUSE of A." We don't know if these kids are in trouble because their dads are nonexistent, or because they live in poverty where the only percieved way to "get ahead" is to sell drugs, be in a gang, or date a drug dealer. Always look at the broader spectrum.
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From a quoted source earlier:
Changes in adolescent's satisfaction with the father-adolescent relationship significantly influence fluctuations in son's and daughter's psychological well-being; this effect persists after controlling for changes in mother-adolescent relationships. These findings underscore fathers' unique direct contribution to their children's psychological well-being.
This reasoning indicates that the lack of having a father in ones life is independant of race and culture. To be completely convincing they'd have to target particular regions of the brain that are stimulated or not being stimulated by a male parental role model.