Percepciones sobre maternidad y paternidad en adolescentes hombres y mujeres, el caso de cuatro colegios del cantón Cuenca, período 2009-2010

Abstract

This research aims to understand the construction opinion of adolescent parents, in their maternity and paternity. In this sense, we seek to acquire knowledge acaezca's own experiences and internal processes vivencian adolescents, as input in the generation of new strategies to support and meet the challenge of taking on the responsibilities of being a mother and father's perceptions, beliefs, desires and feelings that have been built about fatherhood and motherhood and trying to understand how these are internalized in adolescents and how they affect your practice. The process was carried out, from the narrative of the adolescents of 16-18 years of age, from four schools in the Canton Cuenca, the methodology used was mixed: Qualitative and Quantitative, using the technique of the Inquiry and the unstructured interview to determine the level of social, cultural and symbolic take on the role reproductive, male and female adolescents and the persistence of traditional perceptions about motherhood and fatherhood.