"Mark Daniel Regnerus" is a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His main fields of interest are sexual behavior, relationship dynamics, and religion. In 1999 and 2001 he won the Distinguished Article Award from the Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association.

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Relating to teenage girls can be a real dance so to speak. I know we're going to have difficulties when we get to that age.

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Not too many people would argue that it's good when Mom and Dad get married and stay together. But even beyond that we wanted to look inside those families to see what made a difference. In the end it wasn't the mother child bond, the father son bond. It was the father daughter bond.

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But it's not enough for Dads just to be around, and it's not enough for dads to say, 'We're going to have some focus time together.' They have to make a conscious effort to relate well.

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