Abstract:
Filipino fathers are not just economic providers for the family and disciplinarians for
their children anymore they have to have purpose in the activities they conduct with their
adolescent children. Their support of their adolescent child's development through specific
activities and through positive affect to these activities will enhance the physical-athletic,
intellectual-academic, and socio-emotional growth of their child. Across the ages, older fathers tend to be the most generative to their adolescent
children and the least dilettante. Middle-aged fathers are the least generative and the most
dilettante. For the younger fathers, across the age groups they rank second in being
generative and dilettante fathers. In general, a comparison between fathers and their child
perceptions show that there is a discrepancy on how fathers view themselves and how their
children view their fathers thus improving communication will coordinate the fathers'
intentions to his adolescent child.
