Fatherless boy soon have children

Growing up in families without fathers, children will later give birth to heirs significantly earlier than their peers. This is the conclusion, researchers from the London School of Economics.

If the boy for some reason loses his father at the age of seven years, already in adulthood, he is 7% more he becomes a young dad. If the child's father disappeared when his son, from 7 to 16 years old, this boy in adult life by 4-5% is increasingly becoming a parent before their peers. Young fathers called the men who have become parents until 23 years.

Curiously, the disappearance of the father of a son aged 11 to 16 years increases the chances of a boy at a later entry into puberty . These findings were based on analysis of records of 9500 men born in 1958. These studies are published in the journal Royal Society's Biology Letters.

As we found out, 25% of boys who lived with their fathers noticed breaking voice   at the age of about 13 years. In those families where the fathers for some reason disappeared when their sons was 11 years old and older breaking voice   19% often held after 13 years. And those boys whose fathers were absent from the earlier period, his voice broke down after 13 years on 23% more often. Breaking voices   It is one of the key indicators of the entry into puberty .

"Our research shows that not only the father's absence may affect the start of puberty, his son, but the specific time of the absence, - said study author Paul Sheppard. - It was especially surprising to learn that pubertal boys is delayed because of the events that occur in their childhood. In the past we thought that such incidents are "locked" in early childhood, is not reflected in the future lives of boys. "

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