Topic > Berger (2000) states that, according to large-scale surveys, children of intact families have a propensity to fare better. These children experience fewer emotional, physical, and learning complexities from infancy into toddlerhood. In adolescence, they are less likely to engage in delinquency, drug abuse, and school failure. And in adulthood they are more likely to earn a college degree and increase their social competence, self-acceptance, self-confidence and professional success. The sum of a person's behavioral and emotional uniqueness is called Personality. Personality includes an individual's moods, attitudes, opinions and motivations, way of thinking, perception, speech and actions. An individual's personality makes him different from other individuals. There are many personality theories in every culture and throughout much of recorded history that describe personality. The early Greeks applied their thoughts about bodily processes to describe dissimilarities and similarities in personality. In the 18th century Charles-Louis, Immanuel Kant, Giambattista Vico and Montesquieu anticipated traditions of understanding the human being and group differentiations; towards the beginning of the 20th century Ernst Kretschmer and the psychotherapists Sigmund Freud, Alfered Adler and Carl Jung presented opposing theories of personality. Freud's theory focuses on the influence of psychosexual forces as arbitrated by the structural mechanisms of the id, ego, and superego, and on the relationship between conscious and unconscious intentions or desires. The most important thing was the selection of defense mechanisms used by a person. Jung, similarly to Freud, emphasizes unconscious desires but gives less importance to sexuality and de...... middle of paper ...... right and wrong”. Kruk (2012) in his study states that fatherless children face many behavioral problems like these, children have more social adjustment problems and have a high rate of problems with apparent behavior and friendships, they may also develop an arrogant personality and unapproachable in an attempt to cover up their underlying anxieties, fears, resentments and unhappiness. 71% school dropouts are those children who live without their father; these children have more problems academically and have low scores in reading, thinking skills and mathematics tests, are more likely to leave school at age 16 and are also less likely to gain academic and vocational qualifications at age adult. Children who live without their father are more likely to drink alcohol, smoke and abuse drugs during childhood and adulthood.1
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