Abstract
Abstract This literature review discusses how the concept ofegalitarian parental careis constructed as a representation of the new dynamic in parents/children relations in the contemporary world. To achieve this goal, it retrieves national and international scientific publications in the last five years and focus, as a matter of priority, on the psychological perspective. Results were presented according to data distribution between areas of knowledge, methods, international and national occurrence. Analysis was based on the following categories: assumptions for an ideal egalitarian family, contemporary parenting, parenting versus work versus professional career, and egalitarian parental care. Conclusion shows that egalitarian parental care is a trend in contemporary parenthood construction and demand further investigation in diverse contexts.
Highlights
This literature review discusses how the concept of egalitarian parental care is constructed as a representation of the new dynamic in parents/children relations in the contemporary world
Several fields of study have investigated and brainstormed on the topic, with national and international production - Administration / Business (3.2%; n = 9), Anthropology (1.7%; n = 5), Education (1 %; n = 3), Nursing (7.1%; n = 20), Medicine (0.7%; n = 2), Politics (4.6%; n = 13), Psychology (42.7%; n = 120), Public Health (1.7%; n = 5), Social Work (1.4%; n = 4) and Sociology (21.7%; n = 61); an area with only a national production - History
It was observed that the prevalence of publications is concentrated on the field of Psychology, that every year presented an increasing quantity of articles, national (73.4%; n = 47) and international (37.8%; n = 73), compared to each of the other areas of study, with the exception of 2011 and 2014, where the international production of sociology was prevalent
Summary
This literature review discusses how the concept of egalitarian parental care is constructed as a representation of the new dynamic in parents/children relations in the contemporary world. To achieve this goal, it retrieves national and international scientific publications in the last five years and focus, as a matter of priority, on the psychological perspective. As regards the constitutive dimension, there is an increasing expansion of the limits of what has been considered as family, with the inclusion of families affectively constituted, in addition to those biologically assured This is the case with single-parent, reconstituted, homoparenting, co-parental (parental sharing to raise children in gay and lesbian couples) families, childless couples (Araújo, 2011; Corrêa, 2012; Grossi, 2003), and the artificial family whose nucleus encompasses a biological mother (mother who “borrows” the uterus or donates eggs) exercising substitute motherhood and the biological father. From the relations previously governed by a hierarchical and dichotomous system that valued male and paternal power and authority, we perceive an organization with a tendency towards horizontalization of relations in view of democratic and egalitarian ideals in the mediation of roles and functions between fathers and mothers (Araújo, 2011)
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