Experts warn: the father is important for the infantile development

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  • Inês Hennigen Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Keywords:

discourse, childhood, paternity, gender, experts

Abstract

I discuss the results from the research that sought to know the media discourses on paternity and its effects on subjectivation ways. Here I approach one of the identified statements: the child is a person in development and therefore needs his father. I focus in four aspects: the importance of the concept of development for the codification of childhood and children and adult's social control; the way the fathers and mothers positions were being constructed as distinct and hierarchically unlike places; the changes in the status of children and parents; the growing primacy of knowledge/power of experts opposing parental knowledge.

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Author Biography

Inês Hennigen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professora do Departamento de Psicologia Social e Institucional do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul e docente do PPG em Psicologia Social e Institucional da UFRGS.

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Published

2010-05-01

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HENNIGEN, I. Experts warn: the father is important for the infantile development. Fractal: Journal of Psychology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 169-184, 1 May 2010.

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2010)

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