Aarhus University.
Aarhus University Hospital.
Child Dev. 2021 Jul;92(4):1494-1508. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13488. Epub 2021 Jan 5.
This cohort study, including 15,810 children born 2000-2003 in Denmark, aimed to investigate the association between father absence in pregnancy or during childhood and pubertal development in girls and boys. The children were followed from 11 years of age and throughout pubertal development. Mean age differences according to exposure groups were estimated for each pubertal marker separately and for a combined pubertal marker. The results suggested that father absence in pregnancy and during childhood was associated with earlier pubertal development in girls, and father absence from late childhood was associated with earlier pubertal development in boys. The paternal investment theory, the psychosocial acceleration theory and the energetics theory were explored, and did not seem to explain the observed associations.
本队列研究纳入了 1920 年至 1923 年期间在丹麦出生的 15810 名儿童，旨在探究孕期或儿童期父爱缺失与女童和男童青春期发育之间的关系。研究对这些儿童进行了从 11 岁到青春期发育结束的随访。分别针对每个青春期发育标志物和综合青春期发育标志物，对暴露组间的平均年龄差异进行了估计。研究结果表明，孕期父爱缺失和儿童期父爱缺失与女童青春期发育提前有关，而青春期后期父爱缺失与男童青春期发育提前有关。研究还探讨了亲代投资理论、心理社会加速理论和能量学理论，但这些理论似乎并不能解释所观察到的关联。
