Father absence in early life has been shown to be associated with accelerated reproductive
development in girls. Evolutionary social scientists have proposed several adaptive …

An evolutionary model of conditional reproductive strategies argues that girls whose fathers
are absent or make little parental investment experience early puberty. However, such a …

There is growing evidence that the reproductive schedules of female mammals can be
affected by conditions experienced during early development, with low parental investment …

Girls who experience father absence in childhood also experience accelerated reproductive
development in comparison with peers with present fathers. One hypothesis advanced to …

Is the absence of biological fathers related to their daughters' earlier age at menarche?
Drawing on evolutionary psychology and life history theory, prior research has suggested …

Life-history theoretical models show that a typical evolutionarily optimal response of a
juvenile organism to high mortality risk is to reach reproductive maturity earlier. Experimental …

Research has previously found a number of apparently contradictory patterns in the
relationship between 'father absence'(having a non-resident father during childhood) and …

The impact of father absence on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy was
investigated in longitudinal studies in the United States (N= 242) and New Zealand (N …

Children raised without a biological father in the household have earlier average ages of
first sexual intercourse than children raised in father‐present households. Competing …

To date, the great majority of human paternal investment studies have focused on the effects
that men have on their preadolescent children, mainly in terms of child care and …