Vinculación Afectiva de Adolescentes Cuyas Madres Estuvieron Privadas de la Libertad y/o Madres que Continúan en Prisión Domiciliaria en la Ciudad de Bogotá

Abstract

This research addresses the complexity of the affective bonding between mothers deprived of liberty and/or house arrest and their adolescent children, focusing on the experiences of each participant, with an interest in analyzing this relationship, understanding it as a fundamental factor in the development and stability of the human being's life cycle. A qualitative paradigm was chosen, oriented in a descriptive observational design of a punctual, onedimensional ideographic type, which consists of the relational processes of each subject taking into account their own lived reality The collection of information was carried out through semi-structured interviews with a total sample of 5 mothers and 3 adolescents. The analysis of qualitative data was carried out from grounded theory using ATLAS.TI-9 from which categories such as emotional bonding, acceptance of motherhood, transformation, family bonding, rupture of the bond, painful memory, perception, judgment, among others, emerged. According to the accounts, it is concluded that adolescents are subjected to a forced adaptation, to create irregular alternative dynamics such as experiencing abandonment due to separation and signifying that they are absent. As for the mothers, this rupture brings with it guilt for not being present in their children's lives, trying to make up for the time they were absent; it also brings with it a negative perception of themselves for not fulfilling their role as mothers, worry about their children's future, and regret for the time they were not present during the different stages of their children's life cycle.