Experiencing a father\u27s absence through the eyes of adult men

Za otrokov zdrav osebnostni in duševni razvoj sta potrebna tako oče kot mati. Še tako dobra mati ne more nadomestiti moškega lika, ki ga otrok potrebuje. Žal pa živimo v času, ko vse več otrok živi v družinah, kjer je prisoten lik odsotnega očeta. V svojem diplomskem delu sem se osredotočila na odrasle moške, ki niso imeli prisotnih bioloških očetov v času svojega odraščanja. V teoretičnem delu sem si podrobneje ogledala podobo očeta, njegovo vlogo ter otrokove potrebe po prisotnem očetu v času otroštva, mladostništva in tudi kasneje v odrasli dobi ter vplive očetove odsotnosti na njihove inteligentne sposobnosti, oblikovanje spolne vloge, na njihov osebnostni razvoj in samopodobo, socialno vključenost ter čustveno dojemanje očetove odsotnosti. V empiričnem delu diplomske naloge sem predstavila analizo kvalitativnega raziskovanja, pri katerem sem opravila tri intervjuje z odraslimi moškimi, ki v svojem obdobju odraščanja niso imeli prisotnih svojih bioloških očetov. Skozi literaturo in raziskavo sem prišla do zaključka, da ima oče edinstven pomen za življenje svojega otroka, saj je moški lik pomemben pri odraščanju dečkov.A child’s personal and mental development requires both his father and his mother. No matter how good the mother is, she cannot replace the figure of a father whom a child needs. Unfortunately, we live in a time when more and more children live in families with absent fathers. In my diploma, I focus on adult men whose biological fathers were absent during their growing up. In the theoretical part, I concentrate on the image of a father, his role and a child’s needs for a present father during his childhood, adolescence and later in adulthood as well as on the influences of the father’s absence on the child’s intelligence, his formation of the gender role, his personal development and self-image, on his social involvement and on the child’s emotional perception of his father’s absence. In the empirical part, I present an analysis of qualitative research, where I conducted three interviews with adult men whose biological fathers were absent during their growing up. As a result of literature study and empirical research, I have come to a conclusion that the father has a unique significance in the life of his child because a man’s figure is of great importance in growing up of boys