References
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003a) Australian social trends: Family and community – living arrangements: changing families. Canberra.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2000) Australian social trends: Family – living arrangements: caring for children after parent separate. Canberra.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2003b) ‘Divorces, Australia 2003’ (No. 3307.0.55.001) Canberra.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (2004) ‘Measures of Australia’s progress’ (No. 1370.0): Family, community and social cohesion. Canberra.
- Ellis BJ, Bates JE, Dodge KA, Fergusson DM, Horwood JL, Pettit GS and Woodward L (2003) Does father absence place daughters at special risk for early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy? Child Development 74(3): 801–821.
- Farrell AB and White KS (1998) Peer influences and drug use among urban adolescents: family structure and parent–adolescent relationship as protective factors. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 66(2): 248–258.
- Flouri E and Buchanan A (2003) The role of father involvement in children’s later mental health. Journal of Adolescence 26(1): 63–78.
- Govind P and Stein REK (2004) Contrast between behaviour and academic achievement for kindergarten children living in single parent families. Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics 25(5): 376.
- Guttman J and Rosenberg M (2003) Emotional intimacy and children’s adjustment: A comparison between single-parent divorced and intact families. Educational Psychology 23(4): 457–472.
- Hendricks CS, Cesario SK, Murdaugh C, Gibbons ME, Servonsky JE and Bobadilla RV (2005) The influence of father absence on the self-esteem and self-reported sexual activity of rural southern adolescents. The Official Journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty 16(6): 124–131.
- Hetherington ME, Bridges M and Insabella GM (1998) What matters? What does not? Five perspectives on the association between marital transitions and children’s adjustment. American Psychologist 53(2): 167–184.
- Mackey WC (2001) Support for the existence of an independent man-to-child affiliative bond: Fatherhood as a biocultural intervention. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 2(1): 51–66.
- Polit DF, Beck CT and Hungler BP (2001) Essentials of Nursing Research: Methods, appraisal, and utilization (5th edn). Philadelphia: Lippincott.
- Rohner RP and Veneziano RA (2001) The importance of father love: History and contemporary evidence. Review of General Psychology 5 (4): 382–405.
- Silverstein LB and Auerbach CF (1999) Deconstructing the essential father. American Psychologist 54(6): 397–407.
- Taanila A, Laitinen E, Moilanen I and Jarvelin M (2002) Effects of family interaction on the child’s behaviour in single-parent or reconstructed families. Family Process 41(4): 693–708.
- Van Manen M (1990) Researching the lived experience: Human science for an action sensitive pedagogy. United States of America:The State University of New York.
- Wade B (1995) Fear of Abandonment. Essence 25(12): 79–86.
- Wong DL, Perry SE and Hockenberry MJ (Eds) (2002) Family influences on child health promotion. In Maternal child nursing care (2nd edn, pp. 691–706) St Louis: Mosby.