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Teenage Father Research Paper

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People perceives teenage fathers as an irresponsible person and that have all that chance to escape on their responsibility as a father since the teenage mothers were the one who bears the child. This perception may result ti several depression that a teenage father may have. Paternal depression is a significant health problem. In fact in a Meta-analysis estimated it impact upon one in ten families (P. JF, Bazemore SD 2010)6. Paternal depression can also cause financial and emotional stressors for the family as well as poor paternal infant engagement (Ramchandi et al. 2005)7. Talking about men, they are more secretive compared to a women, they even think themselves as the one who doesn’t need a help from any psychologist to change their behaviour …show more content…

(E. Bade 2012). The psychological impact of becoming a father affected the transformation of their self and how the young man viewed his future. The sudden change in possible future self may be the cause of the intense emotional reaction includes fear and shock (E.S. Sheldrake, 2010). It represents a major off-time developmental transition for adolescent that can be particularly stressful. Despite emerging interest, research examining the psychological well-being of adolescents confronting fatherhood still interrupts far behind the extensive studies characterizing the adolescent mother’s experiences (Miller-Loncar et al., 1998)9. This experiences should be the basis on how do professionals working with teenage father may develop a supporting note on for young fathers and ensure that they are emotionally assisted and informed in all the choices available to them. Remaining literature on adolescent fathers has focused basically on social support and fulfillment of parenting behaviors related to adolescent mothers and their children, including involvement, child support, and financial assistance (Fagan, et. al. 2007;)10. A small but growing body of work has investigated parental influences on adolescent …show more content…

It was Viewed Holistically that includes the fives aspects of personality: The Mental, emotional, social, physical and spiritual aspect of a Human nature. Mental health of individual was influenced by their personality, and their coping mechanism determines on the personality they possess. A person may be called well-adjusted if they can solve a problem in a normal way and the other hand a considered maladjusted one was reacts in a symptomatic way of everyday living. A personality of a person development begins at birth and is contingent and may change upon circumstances and traumatic experience that affects personality

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