A father's imprint can mark a woman's identity for all time, affecting her sense of self, her work, her love relationships, and her understanding of the sexual differences. In the African American family, the female (mother, sister, aunt, and grandmother) is more than likely to be the primary caregiver and role model that the daughter and/or son will identify with and emulate. Scholarly research has been done in the area of father and mother importance and the imprint or not they impart on the lives of their offspring. However, lacking in scholarly research are specific studies aimed at the adult African American female and her father. African American women are the least likely of all female ethnicities to seek out any type of professional counseling, preferring to discuss their family dynamics, life stressors, and relationship concerns among other family-identified matriarchs, identified friends, and their frequented social gathering places. If it is true that a father helps the mother to develop their daughter's confidence in herself/her femininity, understand the male-female bonding, shape her personal grace/elegance, and introduce her to the external world, then perhaps one might conclude that the absence of these lessons from the father can produce a severely wounded and/or impaired woman in the aforementioned areas. This research examines the statistical significance of father absence/presence on the adult African American female as it relates to her ability to bond and form healthy emotional attachments in her intimate partner relationship(s).