Parentalidad: Redefinición de las Narrativas sobre Maternidad y Paternidad Adolescente

Abstract

This literature review article, titled Parenthood: Redefinition of the Narratives on Adolescent Motherhood and Fatherhood, has as main objective to present a new approach to the topic through a bibliographic review. It begins with the exposition of the dominant narratives associated to the topic, starting with the premise of identifying the prevailing documents about adolescent motherhood and fatherhood and how alternative narratives may arise around parenthood on this specific stage in life; furthermore, it makes an approximation of the knowledge generated in other fields of study in which important contributions to the topic have been made, such as anthropology, sociology and medicine. To this end, the search for literary resources focused on articles and books available through open access databases, under a systematic qualitative revision (meta-synthesis) of indexed journals and repositories of the Santo Tomas University library, for a total of 80 verified documents, mainly from sources written in Spanish and English, which present both local and international contexts from countries such as Ecuador, Argentina and Peru. Such sources were considered as valuable for presenting a broad spectrum how the adolescents role in parenthood has been conceptualized and described as problematic, in an attempt to understand the approaches from psychology, through a systemic narrative perspective, recognizing the ways in which systems organize though those narratives that construct them.