Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Committee on Human Development, December 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-211). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes abstract and vita. Includes final project proposal. Includes bibliographical reference (leaves 143-147, 50-54).

Det svenska samhället präglas av en jämställdhetsdebatt där regeringen genom sociopolitiska åtgärder aktivt arbetar med att jämställa kvinnor och män. Det har skett förändringar i hur faderskapet och pappans roll framställs i samhället vilket resulterar i nya attribut på rollen som pappa. Denna studie syftar till att beskriva och skapa förståelse för mäns upplevelser av rollen som pappa. Studien är av kvalitativ ansats och genomförd med hjälp av tio semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teoretiska utgångspunkter är rolltagande och socialisation, normer köns- och genusroller samt rollkonflikt. Urvalsgruppen består av män som blivit pappor efter senaste revideringen i föräldraförsäkringslagen 2016-01-01 och är sammanboende med barnets mamma. Datan analyserades med hjälp av fenomenologisk analys. Resultatet visade att männen upplevde rollen som pappa präglad av ansvar, delaktighet och jämställd med den andre föräldern. Männen upplevde att det tog tid att socialiseras in i rollen som pappa där den sociala omgivningen och normer samt den egna pappans antagande av rollen som pappa påverkade. Männen upplevde att traditionella könsroller allt mer suddas ut vilket resulterade i förändrade attityder från omgivningen där främst arbetsgivarens stödjande förhållningssätt beskrevs uppmuntrande till att ta ut föräldraledighet. / The Swedish society is characterized of an ongoing gender equal debate where the government through social policy measures is actively working on equating men and women. There have been many changes about how fatherhood and the father's role is portrayed in the society which results in new attribute to the father’s role. This qualitative study aims to describe how men experience their role as a father in contemporary time. The study uses ten semi-structured interviews as an instrument. Role-takingand socialization, norms and gender roles and role-conflict, social normsand gender roleis constituted as theoretical framework. The sample consists of men who have children born after the latest revision of parental leave insurance 2016-01-01 and are cohabiting with the child’s mother. The data were analyzed by using a phenomenological analysis. The result showed that the men perceived their role as a father as being characterized by responsibility, participation and equal to the other parent. The men perceived that it took time to socialize in to the role as a father were the social environment, norms and also their own fathers role affected them when taking on the role as a father. The traditional gender roles are changing which results in transformed attitudes from the social environment where mainly the employers supporting approach was described to encourage the respondents to take out parental leave.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T16:34:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carolina Agustinelli.pdf: 668308 bytes, checksum: cbdac43a54747eab3daf40bdf56441c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-26 / Before the suffering and the issues faced by parents of children with a diagnosis of brain paralysis, this paper seeks to investigate the parents psychodynamics and adaptation aspects. A clinical study was carried out involving two fathers and two mothers of children with brain paralysis from 1 to 5 years old. These parents were interviewed guided by an adaptation scale s standards (EDAO) and by a projective test which revealed that the parents had gone through a critical period after knowing about their child s diagnosis and nowadays are classified with Inefficient Adaptation. Two fathers and one mother were classified with Severe Inefficient Adaptation and one mother was classified with Moderate Inefficient Adaptation. It has been identified that those parents use primitive defense mechanisms when facing the suffering caused by their children s deficiency. It has been concluded that the parents internal resources have been preponderant to their adaptation and the brain paralysis of the children affected all the adaptation sectors of the parents.(AU) / Diante do sofrimento e das questões enfrentadas por pais e mães de crianças diagnosticadas com paralisia cerebral, o presente trabalho estudou aspectos psicodinâmicos e adaptativos. Para tanto, foi realizado estudo clínico, de recorte diagnóstico, em que participaram dois pais e duas mães de crianças com paralisia cerebral que contavam de 1 a 5 anos de idade. Os pais e mães passaram por entrevistas clínicas preventivas orientadas pela EDAO e pela técnica de Desenho-Estória com Tema. A análise do material obtido indicou que todos eles passaram por período de crise após a notícia do diagnóstico da criança e, na atualidade, foram classificados como tendo Adaptação Ineficaz, sendo que os dois pais e uma mãe tinham Adaptação Ineficaz Severa, uma mãe Adaptação Ineficaz Moderada. Com relação aos aspectos intra-píquicos, foram identificadas defesas primitivas nessa lida com o sofrimento ocasionado pela deficiência da criança. Concluiu-se que os recursos internos anteriores ao nascimento da criança e à própria personalidade de cada pai/mãe foi preponderante em sua adaptação e que a paralisia cerebral da criança afetou todos os setores adaptativos dos pais e mães.(AU)

Orientador: Nilse Margarida Carpentieri / Resumo: Este trabalho é uma análise de alguns aspectos relacionados à percepção da figura masculina como pai de criança portadora de deficiência mental, da maneira como compreendem esse papel, cujo objetivo é buscar elementos para a formulação de uma proposta de atendimento e orientação familiar que vise uma maior participação da figura masculina. Participaram desta pesquisa um total de quinze homens pais de crianças diagnosticadas como portadoras de deficiência mental moderada, atendidas em uma instituição pública de atendimento multiprofissional a esta população. Utilizou-se o método de entrevista dirigida e semidirigida, empregando-se um questionário adaptado e a anamnese familiar de GRUNSPUN (1992). Concluiu-se que a relação pai-filho portador de deficiência é uma experiência qualitativamente diferente da relação com um filho não portador de deficiência, sendo que muitos aspectos dessa relação diferenciada variaram principalmente em função das variáveis posição sócio-econômica, religião e sexo do filho afetado. O estudo sugere diretrizes para a condução de trabalhos voltados para as famílias de portadores de deficiência baseado nos dados apurados. / Abstract: This research intends to analyze some aspects related to men's perceptions as fathers of mentally retarded children just like they understand it, to propose a new way of leading support and/or educative familiar groups, who can be able to increase participation of these fathers. Subjects are fifteen men, fathers of moderately mentally retarded children from a public institution. These parents were listened using an adapted questionnaire and Familiar Anamnesis by GRUNSPUN (1992). Author concludes that father-handicapped children attachment is a different kind of experience, and many aspects of this relation seems to variate on significative degree in social-economic status, religion and genre of affected son. This study suggests some ideas to lead mental deficiency family groups. / Mestre

Fathermen is an ethnographic journey in the kinship lives of men on the island of Dominica, West Indies. It traces the various complexities, conundra and contradictions Dominican men encounter and create as they navigate relational life trajectories. These are termed kinship predicaments: moments in kin-lives that trouble hegemonic concepts of fatherhood and masculine personhood; that spark ambivalence between dominant ideals and lived experiences; that provoke quarrels between mothers' expectations and fathers' practices; and expose incongruities between established norms and emerging forms. Seeking to transcend the historical and contemporary circumscriptions that stereotype Caribbean fathers as absent studs or patriarchal authoritarians, this enquiry asks how Dominican men chart their own paths of paternal becoming. Developing an intuitive participatory methodology, referred to as the ethnography of relation, Fathermen commutes into the kin-worlds of Caribbean men, seeking to understand fatherhood through deep dialogue as it is built from the ground up. Organising its chapters around local idioms through which Dominicans frame kinship, Fathermen features discussions on: the romantic and conjugal tensions that precede/inform parenting; the ‘mystic' bodily affects that draw men into reproduction; the vexed norm of paternal provision; Caribbean fathers' emergent nurturant practices; the classed politics of paternal recognition; and, finally, men's ambivalent intergenerational experiences of becoming grandfathers. Fathermen argues that it often takes a lifetime to realise fatherhood, with many Dominican men unable to resolve its many paradoxes within their mortal spans. Whilst it contends that men are ‘tied' tighter into kin-life as they grow along their paternal journeys, ambivalences persist. Yet still, amidst angst and complexity, Fathermen is nonetheless an ethnography of love, dedication, familial vitality, creativity and humour.

O objetivo do presente estudo foi investigar, através de uma abordagem qualitativa, o envolvimento paterno e a experiência da paternidade no contexto da Síndrome de Down (SD). Mais especificamente, procurou-se compreender o impacto que a SD exerce sobre este envolvimento e experiência. Para tanto, foram entrevistados seis pais de crianças com SD, cujos filhos tinham idades entre 9 meses e 3 anos e 3 meses. Os resultados revelaram que os pais participavam ativamente das atividades e cuidados relativos aos filhos, sendo responsáveis por diversas tarefas concernentes a eles, embora o tempo disponível para estar com eles sofra restrições em função do trabalho. Apesar das dificuldades e preocupações que enfrentavam sobre o futuro do filho e sobre a relação com eles, os participantes avaliaram positivamente as suas experiências de paternidade. Discute-se a importância do desenvolvimento de ações que auxiliem não somente os pais, mas também as mães e o restante do sistema familiar, a lidar melhor com as particularidades advindas desta experiência, ajudando a proporcionar uma melhor qualidade de vida para estas famílias. / The aim of the present study was to investigate, through a qualitative approach, paternal involvement and paternal experience in the Down Syndrome (DS) context. More specifically, it aimed to understand the DS impact over this involvement and experience. Six parents of children with DS were interviewed, whose children were between 9 months and 3 years and 3 months. The results demonstrated that parents had been participating actively in children’s activities and caretaking, being responsible for several tasks, although the available time to be with them was restricted because of their jobs. In spite of the difficulties, the participants evaluated positively their paternal experiences. The importance of the developing policies that aid not only the fathers, but also mothers and remaining members of the family system, is discussed, with the intention of working better with the particularities of their lives, helping to provide a better life quality for these families.

O presente estudo buscou compreender os percursos singulares rumo à paternidade no contexto da reprodução assistida, desde a gestação até o primeiro ano de vida do(s) bebê(s). Foi realizado um estudo de caso coletivo longitudinal. Participaram três homens que se submeteram, junto com as esposas, à fertilização in vitro, sendo a causa da infertilidade masculina ou mista. Os pais responderam entrevistas semiestruturadas em três momentos: a) terceiro trimestre de gestação; b) terceiro mês de vida do(s) bebê(s); e c) final do primeiro ano de vida do(s) bebê(s). Os percursos singulares foram relatados e analisados a partir da metodologia do relato clínico. Buscou-se, a partir daí, (re)construir esses três percursos, com seus desafios singulares de elaboração e integração da experiência da paternidade, bem como os desafios no percurso da pesquisadora. Pode-se perceber a solidão dos homens que passaram pela experiência da infertilidade e do tratamento, especialmente por eles terem referido que cuidaram mais do que se sentiram cuidados. Destaca-se a importância de se oferecer um espaço de escuta para esses homens, não só em uma situação de pesquisa, mas também na prática do profissional de saúde mental que trabalha nesse contexto. / This study investigated the unique pathways toward fatherhood in the context of assisted reproduction, from pregnancy to the first year of the babies’ lives. A collective longitudinal case study was conducted. Participants were three men who had undergone, along with their wives, in vitro fertilization. The cause of their infertility was male or mixed. Fathers answered semi-structured interviews in three moments: a) third trimester of pregnancy; b) their babies’ third month of life; c) their babies’ first year of life. The unique pathways have been reported and analyzed based on the clinical report methodology. These three pathways were (re)constructed, with their unique challenges concerning elaboration and integration of fatherhood experience, as well as the researcher’s challenges. Loneliness could be felt in the reports of men who have experienced infertility and treatment. They said they cared more than were cared for. The importance of providing a space for listening to these men is emphasized, not only in a research situation, but also in the practice of mental health professionals who work in this context.

The thesis points out the important role of fatherhood in the lives of men. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the first part, I draw from available literature, journals, websites and sociological researches, and I focus on fatherhood throughout history, knowledge of male identity, the concepts of father in different scientific disciplines and typology of fathers. The second part consists of a qualitative survey conducted in open and indoor playgrounds in České Budějovice. By means of anonymous interviews with both fathers and mothers I examined how fatherhood affects and completes male identity and how important it is for men. Then I evaluated and compared these interviews.

Este estudo parte dos pressupostos de que o desenvolvimento humano em todos os seus aspectos depende de um outro social, de que a família é o primeiro ambiente socializador da criança, e suas práticas são essenciais para que a criança se desenvolva. Pressupõe-se também que: os bebês compartilham características universais, interações são constitutivas do desenvolvimento, o investimento parental é característica da espécie, e o formato que cada um desses aspectos assume está diretamente relacionado ao contexto sociocultural. A partir desses pressupostos pode-se pensar nas mudanças nos papéis sociais exigidas pelo sistema econômico da sociedade urbana ocidental, em que a mulher cada vez mais tem trabalhos remunerados, necessitando muitas vezes deixar os filhos em creches e levando o pai a ganhar espaço em relação aos cuidados com os filhos, inclusive tendo uma participação nestas instituições. Desta forma, o presente trabalho pretendeu investigar os diversos aspectos do envolvimento paterno com seus filhos, inclusive a sua participação na creche,, buscando compreendê-lo através da abordagem sociocultural. Fizeram parte da pesquisa empírica nesta tese três estudos distintos com pais e mães de crianças de 0 a 5 anos, incluindo entrevistas, aplicação do instrumento Estilo Paterno e análise da participação paterna em eventos e atividades escolares, com o intuito de investigar o nível de satisfação paterno e materno com o envolvimento do pai com os filhos e identificando em que aspectos essa participação é mais ou menos freqüente nos cuidados cotidianos, incluindo a escola. Os resultados encontrados indicam que, embora haja uma tendência dos pais em um maior engajamento nas atividades voltadas para o entretenimento com os filhos, estes se mostram cada vez mais disponíveis para o engajamento nas demais atividades diárias. Na creche há uma tendência de maior participação paterna quanto menor a idade do filho e enquanto não prevalecem os aspectos pedagógicos. Os pais participantes de uma forma geral estão satisfeitos com o seu exercício da paternidade, mas consideram que as mães, não só incentivam a sua participação, como desejam um maior engajamento dos pais. Ao término deste estudo podemos afirmar que, as famílias participantes desta amostra brasileira na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, tendem a não ter como prática o exercício da paternidade tradicional, porém ainda não vivem plenamente o exercício da paternidade não tradicional. / This study comes from the estimated thought that all human development and its aspects depend on other social being, that family is the first environment where the child begins socializing, and its practices are essential for the childs development. Its also thought that: the babies share universal characteristics, interactions are constituent of the development, the parenting investment is a species characteristic, and the shape that each one of these aspects assumes, is directly related to the socio cultural context. From this estimative were able to think about the changes of the social roles demanded by the occidental urban societys economic system, where the remunerated jobs for women are increasing at a good rate, leading the father to get more space towards the childs, including their engagement in the nursery school. The main aim of this study was to investigate the different aspects concerning the fathers engagement with their children, including their involvements on the nursery schools environment. Aiming to bring evidences that can contribute to this discussion, the sociocultural approach was considered. Three different studies with fathers and mothers of children from 0 to 5 years old participated on this empiricist research thesis; including interviews, applying the tool on Father Style and an analysis of the fathers participation on events and school related activities. The analysis of these data focuses the evaluation of both maternal and paternal levels of satisfaction about the fathers engagement with their children, besides identifying which aspects show higher or lower frequency about day care, including the schools role. With regards the nursery school some interesting results were found: there is a kind of tendency about the level of the fathers engagement. It seems to grow up when the children were younger and when the pedagogical aspects were not evaluated like relevant to them. The result found indicated that, even though theres a tendency of a fathers bigger enrollment on entertainment activities with their children, they show themselves more and more available to the involvement with the others childs daily activities, like the physical care and school participation. The fathers that participated on the study are overall satisfied with their fatherhood exercises, but they considered that the mothers, not only stimulate their participation, but also wish for a bigger enrollment of their part. At the end of this study were able to firm that, the participant families of this Brazilian portion on the city of Rio de Janeiro, tend to not to have the practice of the traditional fatherhood, however they still dont fully exercise the non-traditional fatherhood, exerting on its majority the fatherhood with changing manifestations.