Studies confirm that a child’s place within a family begins to be determined from the outset of pregnancy and they focus on the parents’ influence on the development of the child. Some preliminary data from a larger longitudinal study (30 couples of new-parents were observed from the 7th month of pregnancy to the child’s first year) are presented and are used: to study the processes involved in co-parenthood; to identify risk situations; to allow comparison and exchange among local operators in order to reorganise services. The data relate to 10 couples that were under observation from the 7th month of pregnancy to the 3rd month after the child was born. Interviews and questionnaires show that couples tackled the “birth” from within; the family of origin is a resource and something to be kept apart; the need of social support; satisfaction of the couple, which decreases after childbirth, represents a risk factor when associated with factors such as the difficulty in making “room” for the baby and anxiety. It emerges that it is necessary to both further studies which allow risk factors to be identified which may negatively influence the family unit in this phase and also to necessitate the reorganisation of services towards paternal involvement.
La nascita della cogenitorialità: un’analisi dei processi dinamici sottostanti e dell’organizzazione dei servizi territoriali coinvolti in questa fase
CATAUDELLA, STEFANIA;
2009-01-01
Abstract
Studies confirm that a child’s place within a family begins to be determined from the outset of pregnancy and they focus on the parents’ influence on the development of the child. Some preliminary data from a larger longitudinal study (30 couples of new-parents were observed from the 7th month of pregnancy to the child’s first year) are presented and are used: to study the processes involved in co-parenthood; to identify risk situations; to allow comparison and exchange among local operators in order to reorganise services. The data relate to 10 couples that were under observation from the 7th month of pregnancy to the 3rd month after the child was born. Interviews and questionnaires show that couples tackled the “birth” from within; the family of origin is a resource and something to be kept apart; the need of social support; satisfaction of the couple, which decreases after childbirth, represents a risk factor when associated with factors such as the difficulty in making “room” for the baby and anxiety. It emerges that it is necessary to both further studies which allow risk factors to be identified which may negatively influence the family unit in this phase and also to necessitate the reorganisation of services towards paternal involvement.
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