ABSENT FATHERS AND THE EFFECTS ON CHILDREN February 24, 2007 Absent Fathers and the Affects on Children Abstract The phenomenon of the family with absent father is stipulated by several reasons: separation or divorce of married couples, breakdown of the relationships of unmarried cohabiting couples, non-marital births and fathers absent from their children due to different reasons. Absent fathers have negative influence on moral and emotional development of childs personality. Absent fathers contribute to negative family environment, conflict relationships of close relatives, and the atmosphere of mutual hatred, aggression, outrages, insults, and mutual accusations. All this has an impact of childs mentality, his perception of the world, childs moral convictions, viewpoints, attitude to social surroundings, etc. Children brought up in families with absent fathers often suffer from emotional and psychological disorders. They become more unsociable, reserved, aggressive, uncertain and capricious.
Abnormal emotionality, lack of balance, abnormal susceptibility and sentimentality bear hypertrophic nature and make the childs psychics more vulnerable. Feeling of emotional pain, shame, self-inadequacy, lack of self reliance, complex of inferiority, feeling of isolation and loneness make children rude, irritable, unsocial, and result in loss of interest to the environment. The research proposal is aimed to prove the hypothesis that absent fathers are conductive to the complex of unfavorable factors able to make negative impact on psychical, moral and ethical child development up to pathologic aberrations in the spheres of psychical and criminal juvenile behavior and contribute to deviant psychological peculiarities of the childs image of the self and the psychological attitude to his parents compared to children brought up in the full-pledged families. Outline Chapter I: Problem Statement Definition of Terms Paradigm and Assumptions Chapter II: Literature Review Historical and Current Studies Research Problem Chapter III: Methodology Stage 1: Emotional health analysis; Stage 2: Peculiarities of self-appraisal Limitations of the Method Expected Results Timeline References Chapter I: Problem Statement A family with absent father is the most problematic and vulnerable in psychological and educational relation. The proportion of families with absent fathers is significantly high. According to the recent surveys and statistic data, the number of lone parent families increased to 1.6 million in 1996 from 0.57 mi.
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