Parenting experiences in single-parent male families with children attending Early Childhood Programs

Abstract

In this research, some understandings of parenting experiences in single-parent male families, belonging to Early Childhood care programs, in Child Development Centers, were identied, accounting for the belief system, gender relations in family dynamics and the parental practices that are created within them. From a qualitative methodology, from a critical social position that developed action research principles, through a socio-educational vision, through conversational scenarios, which nourished and directed both the research phase and the intervention phase, which took place with a strategy playful-pedagogical. e foregoing showed that the belief system about single-parent families places it in a decit condition, in addition, the hegemony of the nuclear family continues to set the tone in the way in which family diversity is conceived, in turn, it was identied that Parental practices do not depend on gender, but they do depend on the relationship with the other. It is necessary to broaden the visibility of the male single-parent typology in the institutions that provide a service for any of their members, such as in Child Development Centers, taking into account the particularities and needs of families.