The nurse's care of a newly delivered adolescent includes teaching about infant care. When developing the care plan, the nurse bases interventions on the knowledge that:
A. the adolescent is eager to participate in the newborn's care.
B. grandparents who assume care of the infant may adversely affect the teen's future parenting skills.
C. younger adolescents are not emotionally or mentally capable of participating in the care of the infant.
D. adolescent fathers are generally unwilling to participate in the infant's care.
B
Grandparents who take over the complete care of the newborn may interfere with the teen's development of parent-infant attachment and adversely affect the teen's self-image and fu-ture parenting skills. Adolescents may be self-absorbed and not eager to participate in the newborn's care. Younger adolescents may very well be emotionally and mentally willing and able to participate in infant care, and the new father may wish to be part of the parenting process.
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