Parenting Discourses and Practices in Early Childhood: A Sociocultural Construction of Gender and Generational Relations in the Family

Abstract

This article focuses on the relational fabric of the family that marks the rights and obligations between father, mother, caregivers, sons, and daughters in first infancy; it also invites to change the paradigm present for centuries in the sociocultural construction of gender and generation, such as patriarchy, causing tensions in the parenting discourses and practices of caregivers. The aim was to understand, along with 75 families from different child development centers (CDC) in three municipalities of the departments of Caldas, La Dorada, Viterbo and Palestina-Arauca, the cultural and social aspects surrounding parenting discourses and practices differentiated by gender and generation. In general, the processes of parenting are rooted in sociocultural patterns that perpetuate imbalances in relationships.