Essay On Teenage Parents

Young fathers are under-represented in research about the experiences of teenage parents. They have also been portrayed negatively in the media. This has resulted in young fathers not only becoming at risk of marginalization but also an 'invisible' and vulnerable group (Fatherhood Institute, 2009).
Leite’s (2007) used boundary ambiguity theory as a guide to investigating transition time for young men to work on the experiences of young and unmarried fathers between the ages of 18 and 21 years during the prenatal period. As specified by Knoester&Eggebeen (2006), the transformative perspective and the role occupancy perspective are the two perspectives emerged from the literature that was focused on fatherhood in general.
According to Dudley (2007), he argued that many young fathers report that they genuinely want to be actively involved in their role as a parent and the existence of a continuous romantic relationship between the biological parents is a

The young men described the involvement of maternal grandparents as a discouragement to their own physical and psychological presence. (Leite, 2007)
Teenage fathers are more likely to have engaged in youth offending, with some estimates that more than a quarter of young men in young offender's institutions are already expectant fathers. (Tyrer et al,2007)
As Swann et al (2003) highlighted that young parent often looks at different age groups, cultures and a number of different variables that make generalizations within the population problematic.
Florsheim and Ngu (2003) observed fatherhood to be a “wake up call” for some hugely disadvantaged young men, who gradually pulled their lives together afterwards. Interestingly, a positive attitude during the pregnancy was no predictor of this and some of the young men spent time in prison after their babies were born. The “wake up call” often kicked in a little