When Boys Become Parents Format: Paperback

Kiselica, Mark S

ISBN 10: 0813550009 / ISBN 13: 9780813550008

Published by University of Chicago press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When Boys Become Parents Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813550009
• ISBN 13: 9780813550008
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

After school specials about teenage pregnancy abound. Whether in television or in society, the focus tends toward young girls coping with all of the emotional and physical burdens of pregnancy but rarely is the perspective of the teenage fathers portrayed.

In this informative book, Mark S. Kiselica draws on his many years of counseling teenage fathers to offer a compassionate look at the difficult life circumstances and the complicated hardships these young men experience. He dispels many of the myths surrounding teenage fatherhood and shows that, contrary to popular belief, these young men are often emotionally and physically involved in relationships with their partner and their child. But without support and guidance from adults, these relationships often deteriorate in the first year of the child-'s life. Kiselica offers advice for how professionals and policy makers can assist these young men and improve services for them.

When Boys Become Parents provides a moving portrait of teenage fathers to any reader who wants to understand and help these young men to become more competent and loving parents during their journey to adulthood.

About the Author

MARK S. KISELICA is a professor of counselor education and vice provost and director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at The College of New Jersey. He has written over 130 publications, most of which are focused on the subjects of counseling boys and men, especially teenage fathers.