Foster Jennifer
School of Nursing, University of Massachusetts, MA 01003, USA.
J Midwifery Womens Health. 2004 Mar-Apr;49(2):118-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2003.10.019.
This study of the male partners of adolescent mothers was conducted in a small urban city in the northeastern United States where adolescent birth rates remain high despite declining national trends. Despite stated opposition to adolescent birth, one third of the fathers interviewed planned their pregnancies with their partners for more than a year. Because poverty and violence were part of life in the community of these fathers, the experience of having children initiated self-reflection. Men did not value absence from their children's lives, and they recognized their own agency in constructing a fatherless reality for their children. Thus, having children gave men an opportunity to consider alternative possibilities for their lives. This study suggests that despite widespread efforts to prevent teenage pregnancy, children born to adolescent mothers provide the fathers of these children with an affirming and valued component of self-identity.
这项针对青少年母亲男性伴侣的研究是在美国东北部一个小城市开展的，尽管全国青少年生育率呈下降趋势，但该市的青少年生育率仍然很高。尽管表示反对青少年生育，但接受采访的父亲中有三分之一与伴侣计划怀孕超过一年。由于贫困和暴力是这些父亲所在社区生活的一部分，生育孩子的经历引发了他们的自我反思。男性并不看重缺席孩子的生活，他们意识到自己在为孩子构建无父现实中所起的作用。因此，生育孩子让男性有机会思考自己生活的其他可能性。这项研究表明，尽管为预防青少年怀孕做出了广泛努力，但青少年母亲所生的孩子为这些孩子的父亲提供了自我认同中一个得到肯定和重视的部分。
