Cultura e educação na promoção dos processos da vinculação segura e da parentalidade positiva

Olívia de  Carvalho; Marina  Fuertes; Carina  Santa-Bárbara

Authors

Olívia de Carvalho Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-5277
Marina Fuertes Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-5092
Carina Santa-Bárbara Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0514-5383

Keywords:

education, culture, child, transportation, attachment, positive parenting.

Abstract

For many decades in the modern world, babies have been transported by means of aids, abandoning ancestral practices of body-carrying. However, in industrialised and developed societies, bodily transportation of babies, as an alternative to the pram, seems to be reintroduced. The ecological approach to parenthood, originally developed by Bronfenbrenner and Morris (1998), argues that the way in which parents cope with their parental responsibilities is associated with the resources available to them, in addition to their capacities and characteristics. Sameroff and Fiese (2000) postulated that the dyadic interactive quality derives from individual, interactional and social factors - as members of a community with its own social networks, norms, values and attitudes - and is influenced by its different contexts and its interrelationship auxiliary means. It is therefore important to know the culture, policies and practices in Angola in the field of childhood, from the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CSDC), an international treaty signed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 20 November 1989 and ratified by Angola, to legislative measures, in order to frame our interest in studying the effects of carrying babies on the back in the cultural context in which this proximity occurs, assessing the quality of the mother-child interaction in dyads with corporal transportation (on the back) and comparing it with dyads in which babies are carried on the breast, on the lap, or in prams. We would also like to know which specific aspects of the mother-child relationship are associated with bodily transportation. The contact, the affection and the maternal proximity may be the relational context in which the child feels safe and received, initiating the establishment of the attachment. According to Bowlby (1969), the establishment of attachment relationships is, in itself, a normative and universal phenomenon in the human species, although attachment should be understood in a systemic way, as the result of multiple factors and interactions (Cassidy, 2008). Importantly, studies seem to indicate that bodily carrying is preferential to transport.

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