30. Young Men As Parents

　　Football star Michael Owen announced last week that, at 22, he will soon follow fellow England star, David Beckham, 27 , into the labor-ward1.

　　This impression is backed up2 by a few surveys on the mating habits of young British. In fact, British young men are five times more likely than their Italian contemporaries to have settled down by 25 .

　　So what is happening? Has the Loaded generation3 gone soft? Celebrity has done a service by casting its limelight on a largely invisible side of fatherhood.

　　When Michael Douglas reveals about the wrinkly end of the paternal experience, Michael Owen is doing for boy dads.

　　Powerful celebrity role models such as Beckham help young fathers feel less of an alien. Beckham, of course , has no problem with the breadwinner bit, but his distinguishing characteristic is his public endorsement of caring fatherhood. For a young dad, this can be liberation.

　　Just 20 percent of teenage fathers remain in touch with the mothers 15 years later. It means that 8, 000 children born to teenage dad this year will not be seeing him by the time they themselves are teenagers.

　　Does this matter to the child? Hugely. According to recent findings by Professor Judy Dunn at the UK s Institute of psychiatry, a close relationship between an estranged father and his child is highly beneficial to a child s development, particularly when the mother became pregnant as a teenager.

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