Effects on children of removing a father from the life of a child.“
- intensified separation anxiety
- denial and avoidance of feelings associated with loss of father
- identification with the lost object
- object hunger for males.”
56% Poor grades or grades substantially below ability and/or recent past performance
Important features of the subgroup of 32 latency aged girls were in the same order:
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