Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 406-415 , April 2008

Father-Child Transmission of Antisocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Father's Presence in the Home

  • RYAN W. BLAZEI, Ph.D.
    • ,
  • WILLIAM G. IACONO, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to Dr. William Iacono, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455;.
    • ,
  • MATT McGUE, Ph.D.

,Accepted 12 October 2007.

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 Accepted October 12, 2007, under the Editorship of Mina K. Dulcan, M.D.This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grants DA 05147 and AA 09367.A preliminary version of these findings was presented at the 2005 Behavior Genetics Association Conference in Hollywood, CA.Disclosure: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S0890-8567(09)62396-0

doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642979

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 47, Issue 4 , Pages 406-415 , April 2008

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