Becoming a father

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, parenthoo