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Managing identity: adolescent fathers talk about the transition to parenthood.
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New Zealand Journal of Psychology
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November 1, 2007
- Author:
- Frewin, Karen; Tuffin, Keith; Rouch, Gareth
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Adolescent fatherhood is often associated with negative stereotyping and deficiencies in the adolescent's situation or characteristics, which effect his investment in child rearing. Developmentally, adolescence is a time when parenthood is not conventional practice nor a well-accepted norm. Understanding how adolescent fathers make sense of transitioning to parenthood allows us to re-think our public representations of young fatherhood. This article seeks to examine the ways that adolescent fathers reconstruct their identity in the midst of becoming a parent. Social constructionism offers a critical approach to the consideration of this transition process. A discursive ...
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