ABSTRACT
by accident or by design, adolescent males sometimes father children. By trial or error, with greater or lesser success, some adolescent males parent their offspring. Little is known of the psychological determinants, internal or external, that account for either of those phenomena. Until recently, the whole area of male caretaking and its relationship to male sexuality was a relatively neglected and understudied one. A change is now occurring as fathers have been discovered—by themselves, by academicians, and by women’s liberationists. A fairly consistent picture of the way in which fantasies, experiences, identifications, and interactions are forged into a nascent view of the self as provider and progenitor is beginning to emerge.
