Abstract

MELLO, Renata; FERES-CARNEIRO, Terezinha  and  MAGALHAES, Andrea Seixas. From demands to the gift: children parents of their parents. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp. 214-221. ISSN 2359-0769.

Taking as its central themes the children's maturation process and the exercise of parenting, this study aims to investigate the child's experience that takes a parental attitude toward the important adults for their existence. From the research on the concept of parentification - an expansion of the understanding of the family context of generational reversal between parents and children - in order to reflect on the major impact of this process on children's emotional development. It appears that the parentification presents itself as a risk to the mental health of the child when it consolidates as a privileged means of relationship between parents and children.

Keywords : emotional development; children's maturity; parenthood; parentification; psychoanalysis.

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