Do Fathers Matter?: What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We've Overlooked (32 page)

Shah, Prakesh S.

Shakespeare, William

Simon Fraser University

single fathers

single mothers

Sipsma, Heather

Skinner, Michael K.

sleep; infants

Smith College

Snowdon, Charles T.

social behavior: absent father; behavioral problems; children and; division of labor; fathers and oxytocin; infants and; link between fathers and sexual promiscuity of daughters; play with fathers; teenagers and

socialization

Society for Neuroscience

Society for Research in Child Development

Solter, Davor

sperm; “brother”; donation; mouse; of older fathers; storage

spinal cord

Spock, Benjamin

Stefánsson, Kári

Steptoe, Patrick C.

stereotypes; bumbling father

Stevens, James

Storey, Anne E.

strange situation experiment

stress; animal studies; hormones; marital; pregnancy and; reduction

Subaru

sugar

suicide, teen

Suomi, Stephen J.

Surani, M. Azim

Swain, James E.

swans

Sweden

synchrony

tamarins

Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine

tantrums

Tanzania

technology

teenagers; absent father and; acceptance from parents; delinquent; fathers and; link between fathers and sexual promiscuity of daughters; oxytocin role in father-child relationships; parental behavior shaped by; as parents; pregnancy; schizophrenia in; sex; suicide

television; fathers depicted on

telomeres

testicles

testosterone; topical

test-tube babies

Tide

Titi monkeys

toddlers.
See
children

toxins; as threat to fathers

Tufts University School of Medicine

turtles

Ube3a
gene

Uganda

unemployment

University College London

University of Adelaide

University of Arizona

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Davis

University of California, Riverside

University of Cambridge

University of Chicago

University of Connecticut

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Maryland

University of Massachusetts

University of Michigan

University of Montreal

University of New South Wales

University of North Carolina

University of Oxford

University of Pennsylvania

University of Richmond

University of South Florida

University of Toronto

University of Wisconsin

unmarried parents

Uppsala University

Vanatinai

van den Berg, Mijke P.

vasectomy

vasopressin

Vecsey, George

Vernon-Feagans, Lynne

virgin birth

vitamins and minerals

vole studies

Waite, Linda J.

Walum, Hasse

Washington State University

Watson, John

weapons, use of

weight gain, and pregnancy

Weinberg, Wilhelm

Weinberger, Daniel R.

Weinshenker, Matthew

Weissman, Myrna M.

workforce; changes in; employer demands; fathers’ work schedules; mothers in; paternity leave; work-family conflict

World War II

Wrangham, Richard

Wynne-Edwards, Katherine E.

X chromosome

Yale University

Y chromosome

Young, Larry J.

You’ve Got Mail
(movie)

Zambia

zebra finches

zoology

ALSO BY PAUL RAEBURN

Acquainted with the Night:
A Parent’s Quest to Understand Depression and
Bipolar Disorder in His Children

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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Raeburn is the author of
Acquainted with the Night
, a memoir of raising children with depression and bipolar disorder, and the chief media critic for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker at MIT. He writes the
About Fathers
blog for
Psychology Today
and is a regular guest on NPR’s
Science Friday
. Raeburn is a past president of the National Association of Science Writers and a former science editor at
BusinessWeek
and the Associated Press. He has written for
The New York Times
,
Discover
,
The Huffington Post
, and
Scientific American
, among many other publications. He lives in New York City with his wife and children. You can find him on Twitter at @dofathersmatter and @praeburn and on his website at
www.paulraeburn.com
.

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2014 by Paul Raeburn

All rights reserved

First edition, 2014

Portions of this book previously appeared, in different form, in the following publications:
Discover
May/June 2014 (“Conception: The Genetic Tug-of-War” as “Genetic Battle of the Sexes: How Parental Genes Fight for Dominance in the Womb”) and
Scientific American Mind
February/March 2009 (“Older Fathers: The Rewards and Risks of Waiting” as “The Father Factor: How Dad’s Age Increases Baby’s Risk of Mental Illness”).

An excerpt from
Do Fathers Matter?
originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
Scientific American Mind
May/June 2014.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Raeburn, Paul.

       Do fathers matter?: what science is telling us about the parent we’ve overlooked / Paul Raeburn. — First edition.

           pages    cm.

       Includes bibliographical references and index.

       ISBN 978-0-374-14104-2 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71082-8 (ebook)

     1.  Fatherhood—Psychological aspects.   2.  Father and child.   3.  Fathers.   4.  Families—Psychological aspects.   I.  Title.

BF723.F35 R34 2014

155.9'24—dc23

2013041946

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