Following the anthropological approaches developed on care and family and the contributions of gender studies and feminist critique, in this text analyze the continuities and changes in experiences and models of paternity in young people living in poor slums in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires. The text described and analyzed three attributes of a "good father”: affectionate, respected and provider. The text argues that paternal forms and definitions of “good parenthood” are shaped by transformations in the labor market, the processes of feminization of social policies, the changing and unstable intergenerational family arrangements and changes in legal regulations on childhood and care. Likewise, affective-family crises and lack of compliance with this normative horizon of good parenting, have the focus on the parents' own abilities, acquiring the character of a personal experience and losing its social dimension. There results presented are part of an ethnographic research carried out during the years 2009-2015, with45 open interviews and observations and 30 semi-structured interviews were made to young parents aged between 18 and 29 years old.
Keywords:
paternity, fathering, goodfather, experiences
Author Biography
María Victoria Castilla, CONICET; Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Universidad Nacional de La Matanza; Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Dra. en Antropología, Antropóloga, Investigadora Adjunta de CONICET, Docente UNSAM-UNLAM-UNTREF.
Castilla, M. V. (2019). Construction of "good fatherhood" in men from por neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. Revista Punto Género, (10), pp 110 – 132. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2018.52957
