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  • Demography
  • Reproductive Health

Background:

  • Previous research suggested father absence accelerates daughters' menarche.
  • This claim lacked robust statistical evidence and consistent findings across studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically assess the claim that father absence accelerates age at menarche.
  • To investigate this relationship using a large, nationally representative sample of Indonesian women.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 11,138 ever-married Indonesian women aged 15+ from the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2015.
  • Regression analysis of age at menarche, considering father and mother absence interactions, with and without childhood covariates.
  • Robustness checks included power analysis, subgroup analysis, and varying independent variables.

Main Results:

  • No statistically significant relationship was found between father absence and age at menarche.
  • Power analysis indicated a low likelihood of a false negative result.
  • Literature review revealed prior claims were based on weak statistical foundations.

Conclusions:

  • The hypothesis that father absence accelerates daughters' menarche is not supported by this study.
  • Findings align with higher-quality studies that also found no significant relation.
  • The influence of father absence on menarche timing is not a universal phenomenon.