Prácticas de crianza según las experiencias de vida de dos mujeres que iniciaron su maternidad en la etapa de la adolescencia en la ciudad de Cali

Abstract

The present research has the general objective of identifying parenting practices according to the life experiences of two women who began motherhood in the adolescence stage between 14 and 18 years of age. In this sense, three main categories of analysis were taken up again: Family typology, family lifestyles and affective links related to parenting, based on the theoretical references of symbolic interactionism and constructivist theory. The research was carried out from a qualitative perspective because, it focused on the life experiences of the two adolescents, seeking to interpret reality from the symbolic-emotional. Finding as main results that teenage pregnancies are significantly related to parenting practices, since they go through the formative processes throughout human development and in this sense are part of the life construction of the subjects. In the present investigation, pregnancies for both participants were perceived as a common and normal situation according to the cultural stereotypes in which they operate, such as beliefs, in one case and in the other, very flexible parenting guidelines. and without limits.