Percepção de homens sobre a vivência da paternidade na adolescência.

Abstract

Paternity, both in its signification as in its living, is a continue construction, plural and opened, which occurs from the articulation between cultural and personal influences. This phenomenon can imply in construction and reconstructions of the role of father to man, which are generally achieved through his active participation unrolling pregnancy of his partner. Considering that literature points that the process of paternity creates psycho changed, as well meanings and transformations, this issue has becoming an important question, mainly when it is about adolescent parents, once they face additional pressures and problems that are directly linked to their age. The study aimed to know the perception of men who experienced the paternity in adolescence. It consists in a qualitative study which used as theoretical referential the Bioecological Model of UrieBronfenbrenner. It was developed with five men who lived the paternity during adolescence. The source to the selection of subjects occurred in a Unity of Primary Health Care localized in a peripheral zone of the city of Pelotas. The data collection occurred individually, at home’s participant, during the month of August of 2013. The procedure to data collection occurred through a technique of snowball. Data was submitted to analysis of content, identifying centers of sense in the individuals’ speeches. It was highlighted that live a paternity in adolescence was an experience that brought maturation and a lot of reflections about the role of father and his attributions, which was performed according to the singularity of each one, since de overcoming until the denial of the phenomenon. Family was the referenced microsystem that had an important role, because it constituted supporters bonds to fathers develop the paternal process in adolescence. Some men referenced feelings of anguish, once they couldn’t experience in a responsible way this phenomenon. Paternity in adolescence brought consequences to the whole life of men, mainly in which refers to interruption of studies and economic instability. Insomuch, it can evidence that man also faces the consequences of paternity in adolescence, it not just being lived in the female universe. In this way, it is believed being indispensable to look in an expanded form the social relations of paternity in adolescence, to give visibility to lived needs and to the bonds which needs being establish with his child.