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Becoming a father
Kabancová, Naďa ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Valentová, Hana (referee)
This master's thesis is focused on the experience of young men with the process of becoming a father from the period of pregnancy planning, or in the case of unplanned parenthood, from finding out the partner's pregnancy to birth and sequent development of the child until his 2 years of age. The aim of this study is to examine and understand how the process of birth of fatherhood and paternal identity takes place in young fathers, first-borns. It is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the topic of fatherhood from different perspectives. It deals with its changes in the history and current development of fatherhood, the importance of the role of the father in the family and in the various stages of the process of pre-parental and early parental. The practical part presents qualitative research conducted with young men who became fathers for the first time. The research was based on the implementation and content analysis of seven semi-structured interviews with respondents of the sample mentioned above. KEYWORDS Fatherhood, becoming a father, father role, father identity, parenthood
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The Road to Fatherhood
Škvařil, Václav ; Presslerová, Pavla (advisor) ; Chrz, Vladimír (referee)
This master's thesis is focused on the experiences of men with the transition to fatherhood during the pregnancy period of the partner and the first months of the child's life. The aim of the study is to explore their experience with this period and to understand how the father identity is formed in the proces of becoming a father. The theoretical part introduces the topic of generativity as a prerequisite for parenting and psychological concepts focused on the process of becoming a father. It also discusses the subject of becoming a father in terms of different time periods: preparation for parenthood, pregnancy, childbirth and the first year of the child's life. Subsequently, it is described which biological and psychological changes occur in men in the process of becoming a father, and what changes occur in a relationship with a partner. The practical part presents qualitative research of men who have recently become fathers. Semi- structured interviews were conducted to discover their experience. The research is done within the framework of the interpretative phenomenological analysis. Analysis of the interviews has shown that the topic of responsibility and commitment to the child, the formation of father identity, fatherhood and motherhood, changes in the relationship, and the management of...
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