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Children With No Father Around

At the cellular level, a child's loss of a father is associated with increased stress. The absence of a father -- due to incarceration, death, separation or divorce -- has adverse physical and behavioral consequences for a growing child. But little is known about the biological processes that underlie this link between father loss and child well-being. In a new study, a team of researchers reports that the loss of a father has a significant adverse effect on telomeres, the protective nucleoprotein end caps of chromosomes. Source 8l.

Around Father With Children

Fathers play a bigger role than they will ever know. Children need their fathers, its not just enough to have mom around as great as she is fathers add the element that mom can't.

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Flipflop,

I agree with you, a family needs both parents to be actively involved in raising children. Each plays a part in teaching children how to be good adults.