Question

When Robert and mary had their first child, they had different reactions to parenthood. If their adjustment is typical of most new parents, you would expect that Robertwould react to becoming a father by:

giving priority to his parenting and family roles

intensifying his work efforts to become a better provider

ignoring his parenting responsibilities and spending more time with his male friends

Answer 1

When Robert gets to know that he is going to be a father then the reaction of Robert would be that he would intensify his work efforts to become a better provider. It will help him gather resources that will help in a better upbringing of the child.

Once the child is born he will give priority to parenting and his family roles as well, as that is important for the proper mental growth of the child.

Robert is not expected to ignore his parenting responsibilites and spending more time with his male friends as that time should be devoted to the parenting.