Esta pesquisa teve como objetivo investigar as representações parentais de casais homossexuais masculinos, por meio das imagos parentais e legados geracionais, atualizados pelo processo de transmissão psíquica. Com o crescente aparecimento dos novos arranjos familiares e do papel fundamental da família na constituição psíquica do indivíduo, faz-se necessário o estudo das novas funções e das novas formas de se relacionar dentro destes grupos. Não há um modelo de família dominante e a ampliação de seu conceito acarreta a dificuldade de se abstrair um sentido único. Buscando compreender como se dão tais representações e suas possíveis ligações e/ou influências na relação do casal homoafetivo e, possivelmente, na família homoparental, foram entrevistados cinco casais homossexuais masculinos sem filhos, além da aplicação do DF-Es (Desenhos de famílias com estórias) adaptado. Como resultados gerais encontramos casais ainda muito ligados à suas famílias de origem; com questões conflitivas associadas ao processo de construção de suas identidades homossexuais; presos ao modelo de conjugalidade heteronormativa; cujos relacionamentos caracterizaram-se pela brevidade com que se tornaram compromissados e de coabitação, com a finalidade principal de apoio mútuo à assunção da identidade homossexual de cada um. Diante do material encontrado, concluiu-se que o despreparo para deixar o lugar de filho é fator influente para não se pensar na parentalidade; e ambos estão relacionados com conflitos de cerne familiar, especialmente a falta de aceitação da homossexualidade. Enfatizamos a necessidade de maior número de pesquisas nessa área, da psicanálise à interface interdisciplinar, para que se possa estabelecer uma ética pontuada no vínculo filiativo, base da construção de um novo modelo relacional, conjugal, familiar e parental / This research aimed to investigate the parental representation of men couples, through parental imago and generational legacy, updated by the process of psychic transmission. With the increasing of the new family configurations and the fundamental family role in the individuals psychic constitution, it is necessary the study of the new roles and new ways of relating in these groups. There is not a prevailing family model and the amplification of its concept leads to the difficulty of abstraction of a unique meaning. Trying to comprehend how such representations happen and its possible relations and influences on the homosexual couple relation and, possibly on the homoparental family, five homosexual childfree couples were interviewed, besides the application of DF-E (Drawing of Family with stories) adapted. As general results we found out couples still very attached to their original families; stuck to the heterosexual conjugality model; whose relationships are characterized by the brevity they became compromised and cohabitation, with the finality of mutual support to the assumption of the homosexual identity of each of them. Before the found material, it has been concluded that the lack of preparation to leave the place of son is an influent factor to not think about the parenthood, and both are related to conflicts of family core, specially the lack of the homosexuality accepting. We emphazise the need for a greater number of researches in this area, from psychoanalysis to the interdisciplinarity interface, so that an ethic marked by the filial bond can be established, construction base of a new relational, conjugal, familiar and parental model

Research has shown that having a child who experiences mental health difficulties can be highly stressful for parents and may lead to feelings associated with loss and grief. Currently little is known about how best to support these parents’ needs. Studies from a variety of fields suggest that the ability to find meaning in stressful life events is associated with decreased distress. The current study therefore sought to explore the ways in which a sample of parents whose adolescent children were experiencing mental health difficulties made sense of their experiences. Individual unstructured interviews were carried out with a sample of parents whose children were inpatients at an adolescent psychiatric hospital. A total of eight parents took part in the study, four male and four female. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic and structural narrative analyses. The results suggested that parents varied in their extent and use of meaning making, with some able to find positive meaning in their child’s difficulties and others struggling to make sense of it. Four master themes emerged across participants; unpredictability and ambiguity, difficulties identifying mental health difficulties, difficulties accepting the gravity of the situation, and benefits. The findings suggest that parents would benefit from having the ambiguity of their child’s difficulties acknowledged. Interventions aimed at aiding meaning making should be offered to parents who struggle to make sense of their child’s difficulties.

L’infanticide est généralement associé à un positionnement de femmes dans le rapport exclusif mère / enfant. Ce travail derecherche opère un déplacement de cette problématique de femmes à une problématique de couple entre transmissiongénérationnelle, conjugalité de genre et parentalité. Au travers d’une contextualisation dans l’espace et dans le temps, l’objet de recherche se circonscrit. Dans cette recherche, l’infanticide (néonaticide) interroge le fait pour une femme de ne pas laisser vivre « l’enfant » qu’elle vient de mettre au monde. Le questionnement sur l’émergence de l’enfant dans l’histoire permet de saisir en quoi ce crime est inacceptable dans une société qui instaure des devoirs de protectionde ses enfants. Ainsi peuvent se déconstruire les idées reçues et se repérer les interprétations scientifiques actives pour une meilleure compréhension du phénomène. Ce travail s’étaye des apports psychopathologiques existants. Il propose un modèle dynamique de compréhension du passage à l’acte « infanticidaire ». C’est la mise en lien des processus sous-jacents repérés par une étude clinique de terrain qui permet de penser l’infanticide comme une actualisationconjugale complexe de problématiques singulières empêchant le devenir « parents » / Infanticide is generally associated with the women's position into the exclusive mother and child relationship. A transfer is carried out with this research work from this women’s problematic to a couple’s one between the generation’s transmission, the conjugality of kind and the parenthood concepts. The shape of the research's object is taken through space and time frameworks. In this research work, the concept of infanticide (neonaticide) is questioning about the factthat a woman is not allowing her newborn “child” to live. The thoughts on the emergence of the child into the history let uscatch why this crime is unacceptable within a society which establishes duties for the child welfare. That way, conventional ideas can be dismantled and identified as actives scientifics’ interpretations for a better understanding of the phenomena.This research work is supported by the existing psychopathologics surveys. A dynamic model of understanding the“infanticidary” acting out is then suggested. This is the linkage between underlying processes identified by a clinical survey in this field allows us to think about infanticide as a conjugal complex actualisation of singular’s problems which prevents tobecome “parents”

This thesis deals with the analysis of novels Die Erziehung des Mannes and Die Liebe der Väter. Introductory part analyzes the father role and the role of a man in today's world. Next section offers a brief summary of both novels. Afterwards we inspect the main protagonists and the narrative of the two stories. Both novels are written in first person narrative. The main protagonist is the narrator in both cases. The plot is told from male perspective, an important theme of both books is fatherly love. In the summary of the thesis we discuss whether these novels are Bildungsromans. In both books there is a journey motif present. There is some development in relationships and in the main characters as well. KEYWORDS manhood, parenthood, relationships, partnership, breakup

This master's thesis is focused on the experiences of men with the transition to fatherhood during the pregnancy period of the partner and the first months of the child's life. The aim of the study is to explore their experience with this period and to understand how the father identity is formed in the proces of becoming a father. The theoretical part introduces the topic of generativity as a prerequisite for parenting and psychological concepts focused on the process of becoming a father. It also discusses the subject of becoming a father in terms of different time periods: preparation for parenthood, pregnancy, childbirth and the first year of the child's life. Subsequently, it is described which biological and psychological changes occur in men in the process of becoming a father, and what changes occur in a relationship with a partner. The practical part presents qualitative research of men who have recently become fathers. Semi- structured interviews were conducted to discover their experience. The research is done within the framework of the interpretative phenomenological analysis. Analysis of the interviews has shown that the topic of responsibility and commitment to the child, the formation of father identity, fatherhood and motherhood, changes in the relationship, and the management of...

This master's thesis is focused on the experience of young men with the process of becoming a father from the period of pregnancy planning, or in the case of unplanned parenthood, from finding out the partner's pregnancy to birth and sequent development of the child until his 2 years of age. The aim of this study is to examine and understand how the process of birth of fatherhood and paternal identity takes place in young fathers, first-borns. It is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part deals with the topic of fatherhood from different perspectives. It deals with its changes in the history and current development of fatherhood, the importance of the role of the father in the family and in the various stages of the process of pre-parental and early parental. The practical part presents qualitative research conducted with young men who became fathers for the first time. The research was based on the implementation and content analysis of seven semi-structured interviews with respondents of the sample mentioned above. KEYWORDS Fatherhood, becoming a father, father role, father identity, parenthood

Many families with children in Sweden have roots in different countries where childhood and upbringing differ from other cultures. In this study, we want to examine the problems and the opportunities that parents encounter in raising their children in Sweden and see how the cultural differences are distinguished when one culture meets the other. How differences in value within cultures affect parents' upbringing of their children and what happens when two cultures meet. Unlike their children, parents often find it more difficult to adapt to the new cultural differences. What are the inherited characteristics of the subconscious management of parental upbringing and how do parents manage these without losing aspects of their parenting as a result? At the same time, it is interesting from the parents perspective to compare their own childhood with how they later educate their children.

AbstraktSyftet med denna studie var att skapa kunskaper om hur det är att vara förälder med fysisk funktionsnedsättning i samhället när det finns så normer och förväntningar på hur man ska vara som förälder. Syftet var även att lyfta vilka möjligheter och hinder som föräldrar med fysisk funktionsnedsättning upplever kring sitt föräldraskap. Denna studie bygger på en kvalitativ innehållsanalys där jag analyserat tre intervjuer publicerade i svensk media, med induktiv tematisk analys. Resultatet visade att på grund samhällets förväntningar på föräldraskap och omgivningens negativa attityder kring funktionsnedsättning, får personer med bland annat fysisk funktionsnedsättning gå igenom en lång process tills de kan bli föräldrar. När de väl blivit föräldrar så ifrågasätts de i sin roll som förälder. Ett annat resultat var att trots de negativa effekterna som funktionedsättning medför med sig för en förälder, menade föräldrarna att deras funktionsnedsättning var en möjlighet som kunde berika deras barn.Nyckelord: föräldraskap, fysisk funktionsnedsättning, normer, möjligheter och hinder. / AbstractThe aim of this study was to create knowledge about how it is to be a parent with physical disability in society when there are such norms and expectations how to be a parent. The aim was also to lift the possibilities and obstacles that parents with physical disabilities experience about their parenthood. This study is based on a qualitative content analysis where I analyzed three interviews published within Swedish media, with inductive thematic analysis.The result showed that, due to society's expectations of parenting and the negative attitude of disability around the environment, people with physical disabilities may go through a long process until they can become parents. Once they become parents, they are questioned in their role as parent. Another result was that despite the negative effects of functional impairment on a parent, the parents suggested that their disability was an opportunity that enriched their children.Keywords: parenthood, physical disability, norms, opportunities and obstacles.

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand, 2017 / The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of postnatal depression among adolescent mothers. The study was going to achieve this through a comparative approach. Two groups of adolescent mothers were compared. One group’s participants were still in relationships with their partners (child’s biological father), and the other group consisted of single adolescent partners without the child’s biological father, or a romantic partner. The research study was based in the Umhlathuze region, in two local townships, namely, Enseleni and Esikhawini Townships. A total of 100 adolescent mothers from two health care facilities were sampled for the current research study. A quantitative research methodology was adopted, as the study intended to compare nominal variables. A self-selection sampling method was utilised, and a validated tool called the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) was used to collect data. Furthermore, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was utilised for the purposes of data analysis. The study revealed that there was no evidence of an association between partner availability and postnatal depression among adolescent mothers. However, the limitations of the current research study were acknowledged. The study recommends that a more longitudinal study be conducted, with a closer look at the quality of romantic relations among adolescent couples, and their impact on postnatal health of both adolescent mothers and fathers. / National Research Foundation

Forty-two couples expecting their first child volunteered to participate in a study of the transition to parenthood. Personal well-being, self-esteem, marital satisfaction, and parenting competence of the couples were assessed during pregnancy, and then again when babies were six weeks and fifteen weeks old. Parents were asked to report how much support they had received from their doctors, churches, family, and friends, and other sources, after their baby was born. Personal well-being and parenting competence increased for women after they became mothers. Personal well-being decreased and parenting competence increased for new fathers. Marital satisfaction decreased significantly after couples had their first child; women were less satisfied with their marriages than men were, at fifteen weeks postpartum, possibly because they were more involved in infant care than they expected to be, and felt tied down. Doctors and churches were found to be important sources of support for new parents. Marital satisfaction at fifteen weeks postpartum was positively related to support from doctors, churches, and friends. Support from family was positively related to personal well-being. Parenting competence was not related to any of the kinds of support under investigation, and appeared to develop in response to contact with the infant, and caring for the infant. Mothers were more involved than fathers in caring for and playing with their infants in the early weeks.