... to encompass the ways that fathers affect the quality of the child’s environment for survival, growth, health, and development, as well as the quality of the family environment in which the ... from the US National Survey of Children. They examined Wave I data, collected in 1976, and Wave III data, collected in 1987, focusing on a sample of 367 male and 395 female respondents who reported ... positively related to adolescent self-esteem, life-satisfaction, and mental health at Time II. Importantly, the quality of father-child relationship was found to be more influential than paternal...