“…Some of these studies have found that the impact of fathers on children is somewhat limited, though not unimportant. Among intact families, mothers rather than fathers tend to have the greater influence in children's identity development, positive life transitions, drug use and delinquency, and general measures of adolescent adjustment (Campbell, Adams, and Dobson 1984;Crouter, Carson, Vicary, and Butler 1988;Forehand and Nousiainen 1993;Patterson, Reid, and Dishion 1992). Studies of nonresidential fathers of adolescents suggest that the fathers' influence is especially apparent in fostering children's positive adjustment to divorce (Hetherington 1989;Hetherington, Cox, andCox 1978, 1979;Simons, Whitbeck, Beaman, and Conger 1994;Thomas and Forehand 1993;Wallerstein and Blakeslee 1989).…”