Egalitarian Parental Care: literature review and conceptual construction

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Carine Valéria Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Campana, Nathalia Teixeira Caldas, Gomes, Isabel Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Psicologia (Universidade de Brasília. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistaptp/article/view/23498
• topic: Parenthood, Family, Egalitarian relations, Gender relations, Psychology; Parentalidade, Família, Relações igualitárias, Relações de gênero, Psicologia

This literature review discusses how the concept ofegalitarian parental careis constructed as a representation of the new dynamic in parents/children relations in the contemporary world. To achieve this goal, it retrieves national and international scientific publications in the last five years and focus, as a matter of priority, on the psychological perspective. Results were presented according to data distribution between areas of knowledge, methods, international and national occurrence. Analysis was based on the following categories: assumptions for an ideal egalitarian family, contemporary parenting, parenting versus work versus professional career, and egalitarian parental care. Conclusion shows that egalitarian parental care is a trend in contemporary parenthood construction and demand further investigation in diverse contexts.