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A presente investigação estuda os percursos biográficos dos jovens, tendo em conta,
fundamentalmente, as suas origens e trajetórias familiares, escolares e profissionais.
Em termos metodológicos optámos por uma pesquisa qualitativa, com recurso a
entrevistas biográficas, mais adequada para captar percursos de vida, motivações,
razões, significados, sentimentos e experiências subjetivas. Apesar das estatísticas
indicarem uma redução acentuada da fecundidade adolescente e jovem (até aos 25
anos), sobretudo a partir dos anos 2000, a que não é alheio o facto das raparigas terem
projetos de vida que, à semelhança das mulheres mais velhas, as levam a adiar a
maternidade, a temática da parentalidade jovem continua atual.
Dos nossos resultados emerge o ideal de família ligado ao modelo biparental. Existem
alguns casos de contradições entre o discurso e as práticas sobre a divisão das tarefas
domésticas e parentais, onde as desigualdades de género persistem. Ainda assim, é nos
cuidados e na educação dos filhos que os companheiros mais se envolvem. As
principais alterações que a parentalidade trouxe foram o aumento da responsabilidade
e da maturidade, menos tempo para a individualidade e conjugalidade, a redução das
sociabilidades juvenis e a influência nos projetos de vida. O suporte familiar é referido
como essencial por todos os participantes, na ausência ou escassez de apoios
institucionais. É sobretudo nas entrevistadas que foram mães na adolescência que a
gravidez proporcionou um ganho estatutário. São diferentes as formas de experimentar
a parentalidade, em que a classe social, o género, as transições residencial e
ocupacional, a conjugalidade (ou a sua ausência) e a (in)dependência financeira dos
adolescentes e jovens, quase sempre através de inserções profissionais precárias, são
alguns fatores que condicionam a transição para a vida adulta.
The present investigation studies the biographical paths of young people, taking into account, fundamentally, their origins and family, school and professional trajectories. In methodological terms, we opted for a qualitative research, using biographical interviews, better suited to capture life paths, motivations, reasons, meanings, feelings and subjective experiences. Although statistics indicate a marked reduction in adolescent and young fertility (up to 25 years old), especially from the 2000s onwards, the fact that girls have life projects that, like older women, lead them to postpone motherhood, the theme of young parenting remains current. From our results, the family ideal emerges indelibly linked to the biparental heteronormative model. There are some cases of contradictions between discourse and practices on the division of domestic and parenting tasks, where gender inequalities persist. Still, it is in the care and education of children that partners are most involved. The main changes that parenting brought were the increase in responsibility and maturity, less time for individuality and conjugality, the reduction of youth sociability and the influence on life projects. Family support is referred to as essential in all participants, in the absence or scarcity of institutional support. It is mainly in the interviewees who were mothers in adolescence that pregnancy provided a statutory gain. There are different ways of experiencing parenting, in which social class, gender, residential and occupational transitions, conjugality (or its absence) and the financial independence of adolescents and young people, almost always through precarious professional insertions, are some factors that condition the transition to adulthood.
The present investigation studies the biographical paths of young people, taking into account, fundamentally, their origins and family, school and professional trajectories. In methodological terms, we opted for a qualitative research, using biographical interviews, better suited to capture life paths, motivations, reasons, meanings, feelings and subjective experiences. Although statistics indicate a marked reduction in adolescent and young fertility (up to 25 years old), especially from the 2000s onwards, the fact that girls have life projects that, like older women, lead them to postpone motherhood, the theme of young parenting remains current. From our results, the family ideal emerges indelibly linked to the biparental heteronormative model. There are some cases of contradictions between discourse and practices on the division of domestic and parenting tasks, where gender inequalities persist. Still, it is in the care and education of children that partners are most involved. The main changes that parenting brought were the increase in responsibility and maturity, less time for individuality and conjugality, the reduction of youth sociability and the influence on life projects. Family support is referred to as essential in all participants, in the absence or scarcity of institutional support. It is mainly in the interviewees who were mothers in adolescence that pregnancy provided a statutory gain. There are different ways of experiencing parenting, in which social class, gender, residential and occupational transitions, conjugality (or its absence) and the financial independence of adolescents and young people, almost always through precarious professional insertions, are some factors that condition the transition to adulthood.
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Desigualdades de Género Parentalidade Adolescente e Jovem Percursos Biográficos. Transição Para A Vida Adulta