Notes

Chapter 1: The Relationship That Matters Most

1. “Facts on Father Absence,” National Fatherhood Initiative, accessed August 23, 2013, http://www.fatherhood.org/media/fatherhood-statistics.

2. If you want to know more of the effects—including child abuse, obesity, drug and alcohol abuse, and education—read more of this amazing study at “The Father Factor: Data on the Consequences of Father Absence and the Benefits of Father Involvement,” National Fatherhood Initiative, accessed August 21, 2013, http://www.fatherhood.org/media/consequences-of-father-absence-statistics.

3. Nancy Fowler, “Joblessness, jail, death keep many black fathers out of the picture,” The Art of Fatherhood, accessed August 23, 2013, https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/26059/black_fatherhood_071612.

Chapter 2: Dads Do It Better Different

1. “O Be Careful Little Eyes,” author unknown, http://childbiblesongs.com/song-12-be-careful-little-eyes.shtml, accessed August 15, 2013.

Chapter 3: Know Your Duckling

1. Eckhard H. Hess, “‘Imprinting’ in Animals,” Scientific American 198:3 (March 1958): 81–90, accessed August 19, 2013, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace/w1001/readings/hess.pdf.

2. Ibid.

3. “Imprinting,” AnimalBehaviour.net, http://animalbehaviour.net/Imprinting.htm, accessed August 21, 2013.

4. Ibid.

Chapter 4: Walking the Balance Beam

1. Lisa Belkin, “Your Lying, Cheating, Stealing Teens,” Motherlode (blog), New York Times, December 3, 2008, http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/dirty-rotten-teenage-scoundrels.

2. Lisa Belkin, “Calling the Cops on Your Child,” Motherlode (blog), New York Times, March 24, 2009, http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/calling-the-cops-on-your-child/?_r=0.

3. Sir Walter Scott, “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field,” Canto Sixth: The Battle (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 287.

Chapter 5: The Birds, the Bees, and “the Talk”

1. Genesis 2.

2. “Abduction Information,” Heidi Search Center, accessed August 17, 2013, http://heidisearchcenter.com/abduction-information.

3. Adoree Durayappah, “5 Scientific Reasons Why Breakups Are Devastating,” The Blog, Huffpost Healthy, August 18, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adoree-durayappah-mappmba/breakups_b_825613.html.

Chapter 7: The Critical Eye

1. Robert Mark Kamen, Mark Miller, Harvey Weitzman, A Walk in the Clouds, directed by Alfonso Arau (Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox, 1995).

2. Felix Salten, Perce Pearce, and Larry Morey, Bambi, directed by David Hand (Hollywood, CA: Walt Disney Studios, 1942).

3. Gail Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice (New York: Ballantine, 2000), 22.

4. Ibid., 28, 22.

5. Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes A Village, 10th anniversary ed. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 32.

6. Sheehy, Hillary’s Choice, 23.

Chapter 8: A Cake Without Sugar

1. Sue Kidd, “Don’t Let It End This Way,” reprinted in Focus on the Family, January 1985.

Chapter 9: Are You a Man or a Mouse? Squeak Up!

1. Alan Ebert, “Fathers and Daughters,” Good Housekeeping, June 1992.

2. Ibid.

3. Ibid.

Chapter 10: If You See a Turtle on a Fencepost . . .

1. Taylor Swift, vocal performance of “You Belong with Me,” by Taylor Swift and Liz Rose, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw, accessed September 6, 2013.

2. Taylor Swift, “I Knew You Were Trouble,” by Taylor Swift, Max Martin, and Shellback, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNoKguSdy4Y, accessed September 6, 2013.

3. Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998), 49.

Chapter 11: Time Is Tickin’

1. DC Talk, “Time Is . . . ,” http://www.lyricstime.com/dc-talk-time-is-lyrics.html, accessed August 16, 2013.