... father and the positive attributes displayed by his father, given the fact that he is named after his father. In dramatic contrast, naming a son after an absentee father has a negative effect on adolescent psyche. The adolescent psyche processes the ways and pattern of the absentee father and begins ... to diagnose him with being endless tied to the man who took part in bringing him or her into the world. The son, understanding that his father exhibited patterns consistent with absenteeism, now has a valid form of justification in his own mind that because he is ... in mind, data collec...

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