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Paternity: social responsibility of man's role as provider
Waglânia de Mendonça Faustino e Freitas1, Ana Tereza Medeiros Cavalcante da Silva, Edméia de Almeida Cardoso Coelho
1Grupo de Pesquisa Políticas Públicas de Atenção à Mulher e Gênero, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. waglaniafreitas@ccs.ufpb.br
Objective:
To analyze meanings attributed to paternity by men who are fathers.
Study Design:
Study with a qualitative approach and gender-theory focus, performed in the city of João Pessoa, Northeastern Brazil, in 2003. A total of ten men, whose children had been cared for in the pediatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital, participated in the study. Information analyzed was obtained with semi-structured interviews. Critical discourse analysis technique was employed to analyze participants' speech. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: Participants in the study viewed paternity as a new social role, more closely associated with material support for the family than the dimension of affective involvement with the child. However, participants experienced a transition process where the traditional father lived with those whose affective dimension of paternity was found to be the main concern of being a father.
Conclusions:
The meaning and concrete exercise of paternity were found in an area of responsibilities that predominantly reproduces the traditional father, but also recreates the father's role, including the affective dimension.
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