Significados de la paternidad en adolescentes varones del colegio “Alfonso López Michelsen"

Abstract

This work had as an objective to enquire into the meaning of paternity for teenagers men from the Alfonso Lopez Michelsen School in Bogotá. This qualitative study used the half structured interview as a technique to collect the information. The results and the conclusions show that the paternity develops among internal and external tensions, but at the same time they present themselves ideals that promote them the transformation of the world since their paternal moment. This study showed that paternity means to meet the economic needs by idealizing and imitating the traditional figure of supplier father, at the same time the paternity means to be a friend and a guide, it is a relation in which affection, game and care are very important. Finally, this study showed that a teenager man can develop his new role as a constructive way when the teenager man counts on the support, accompaniment and the necessary resources provided by his family and society.