Teen Fathers: Rights And Responsibilities For Teenage Fathers

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Rights and Responsibilities for Teenage Fathers For a teenage girls, there are lots of rights and responsibilities regarding unplanned pregnancies. On the other hand, teenage males do not get enough of information rights and responsibilities on unplanned pregnancies. It takes two to make a baby. Fathers should know their rights and responsibilities just as a mother does. As of today, teen mothers think its embarrassing to get DNA tests or blood type tests because its questioning her sexual experience. Even though its an embarrassment to the mother, teenage male should have the right to know if the unborn child is his. If he is the father, he should have the right to participate in his child’s life. Even if the parents split up, he should …show more content…

That why they need to know their responsibility. Instead of giving them a slap on the hands, the parents need to tell their sons the responsibility of a child. Parents now of days do not sit down and talk with their teenage males about protection. As of today, there are forty-two percent of young men say they did not know it is possible for a girl to get pregnant during a menstrual cycle, twenty percent of young men say they did not know that pregnancy is possible when a girl on the pill, and fifteen percent say they did not know that condoms are not full proof to prevent form having a baby. Young men today should know how to take care of baby, what to do for a baby when they are sick, and protect the baby wherever they go. Otherwise, teenage boys should help the mother get diapers, wipes, and clothes. As the mom say, “Once you have a child, your life is over and their life begins. You are living your life to make your child’s life better.” (Englander …show more content…

For One needs a sound understanding of the developmental stages and factors influencing male sexual behavior. If the young teen attend a program, the program must entertain a male perspective. Boys respond to different message than girls do, so some programs should be specifically for boys and men. Also some activities should be offered separately to young teen males. Male involvement catch their efforts to their audiences’ right ages and stages of development. For instance, fifteen years old and sixteen years old young males believe themselves to be immune and are inveterate risk-takers, scare about the risks of STDs or pregnant will not help them the same way that might influence older teens or young men. The community efforts should reach out to boys and men in community where about they naturally meet, through the media channels they watch on TV, and at times when they are available. School efforts are clearly low by themselves because males attend to dropout and at a high risk of engaging in unprotected sexual activity. Also young adult men are often the sexual partners of teenage women. Parents should inform young males in clear, concise, and concrete terms, free of technical. Young males need messages such as “Be Proud, Be Responsible, Be a man” from California’s Men Do Care program. (Moore, Teenage Pregnancy

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