Do fathers matter? : what science is telling us about the parent we've overlooked /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : cleaning out the attic
- The roots of fatherhood : pygmies, finches, and famine
- Conception : the genetic tug-of-war
- Pregnancy : hormones, depression, and the first fight
- Fathers in the lab : of mice and men
- Infants : sculpting fathers' brains
- Children : language, learning, and Batman
- Teenagers : absence, puberty, and faithful voles
- Older fathers : the rewards and risks of waiting
- What fathers do
- Afterword: fathers matter.