Abstract

LIMA, Sibely Joaquina Pereira  and  FERES-CARNEIRO, Terezinha. Subjective Experience in the Exercise of Single Parenting. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.2, pp. 709-729. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.61065.

This study aims to investigate the subjective experience in the exercise of single parenting. Five women and three men, between 35 and 58 years old, from the middle socioeconomic strata of the urban population of Rio de Janeiro, were interviewed. These are planned families: one with a biological child, another with biological and adopted children, and six constituted by adoption. The results were analyzed according to the content analysis method, in its categorical aspect. From the evaluation of the material, two categories of analysis emerged related to the subjective experiences narrated by the participants: the context of choice and prejudice. The results showed that single parenting was the means found to fulfill the desire to have child(ren) and the context of this choice is permeated by socio-cultural factors such as religion, gender social roles and, mainly, conjugality, highlighting the tendency in the contemporary family of separation between parenting and conjugality. Prejudice affects men more than women, involves gender issues related to affectivity, care and the way of building a family, and points to stereotypes that are active in social thinking, which are present even in the institutional context.

Keywords : family; single parenting; subjectivation; choice; prejudice.

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