What are some of the emotions they are teenage boy grapple with? What happens to the father son relationship during adolescence?

Generally speaking, adolescent boys have to come to terms with their changing bodies, outrageous urges, and radically altering minds. They begin to formulate their own identities, separate from their families, and begin to come to terms with their feelings of loss. The father-son bond unavoidably changes radically during adolescence. Until now, if a father has been available and good enough, he and his son most likely enjoy a rather steady, congenial relationship, a continuation of their childhood ties. But during a boys adolescence, his feelings about his father become more volatile and unpredictable. Young teenage boys look up to their fathers, often idealize them, as they search for models to guide them through their identity confusion. By middle adolescence, boys often become much more critical of their fathers, paving the way for yet another change in late adolescence, when boys tend to not only distance themselves from their dads but devalue parental authority.  more