Adolescent unwed prospective fathers: readiness for fatherhood and behaviors toward the mother and the expected infant.
Adolescent unwed prospective fathers: readiness for fatherhood and behaviors toward the mother and the expected infant.
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青少年未婚准父亲：为父亲做好准备以及对母亲和预期婴儿的行为。
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1986
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Munford Tl
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O. E. Westney;Cole Oj;Munford Tl
尽管越来越重视评估和满足未婚怀孕的青少年的需求，但对未婚青少年准父亲的了解还不够充分，因为未婚青少年准父亲往往是怀孕青少年的伴侣。作为产前教育干预研究的一部分，28名未婚青少年父亲回答了一份问卷，其中包括他们对父亲身份的准备，产前行为互动，以及与怀孕青少年伴侣的预计产后行为，以及他们与婴儿的预计行为。青少年男性报告说，最初他们要么肯定没有准备好做父亲（75%），要么还没有决定是否准备好做父亲（21%）。然而，随着怀孕超过第二个三个月，只有57%的受访者不想成为父亲。在很大程度上，那些没有参与的人最不可能在产前参与支持伴侣健康的行为，或者表示希望照顾他们的预期婴儿并与之互动。此外，与那些更能接受自己即将成为父亲的男性相比，他们倾向于预测产后与孩子的青少年母亲的参与程度较低。此外，在怀孕前与配偶保持长期关系的男性往往在产前更支持他们，并认为自己在分娩后与母亲和婴儿保持密切的关系。最后，86%的青少年父亲计划工作，以帮助支持他们的婴儿。这些数据表明，不准备为父亲可能与负责任以及不负责任的行为。因此，这些数据被解释为对制定以男性青少年为重点的方案和政策具有影响，以阻止未婚少女怀孕的高发生率。
Despite the increased emphasis on assessing and meeting the needs of unmarried pregnant adolescents, less than adequate attention has been directed toward understanding unwed adolescent prospective fathers who frequently are the mates of pregnant teenagers. As part of a prenatal education intervention study, 28 unmarried adolescent fathers responded to a questionnaire containing items about their readiness for fatherhood, antepartal behavioral interactions, and projected postpartal behaviors with their pregnant adolescent partners, as well as their projected behaviors with their infants. The adolescent males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%). However, as pregnancy advanced beyond the second trimester, only 57% of the respondents did not want to become fathers. To a significant extent, those who did not were least likely to engage in behaviors supportive of their mate's health antepartally, or to indicate a desire to care for and interact with their expected infant. In addition, they tended to project lower levels of postnatal involvement with the adolescent mothers of their children as compared to those males who were more accepting of their pending fatherhood. Moreover, males who had maintained long prepregnancy relationships with their mates tended to be more supportive of them prenatally, and to perceive themselves as maintaining close relationships with both the mothers and infants after delivery. Finally, 86% of the adolescent fathers planned to work to contribute to the support of their infants. The data demonstrate that unreadiness for fatherhood may be associated with responsible as well as irresponsible behaviors. Accordingly, these data are interpreted as having implications for the establishment of programs and policies which focus on the adolescent male population in order to interdict the high rate of unwed adolescent pregnancy.