As relações intergeracionais nas famílias contemporâneas: a evolução do pensamento da escola de pais do Brasil

Abstract

The family is a mutable organism which transform and is transformed by the society. By the adoption of determined rules and concepts it opens space to social changes. The contemporary family has crossed over deep modifications caused by, over all, factors suc. as: the woman professional insertion, the world-wide mass media, the complexity of intergerational relationship due to nuclear family weakness, the increasing number of divorces and remarriages. At the side this, in the last thirty years, there was a significant growing of medium life brazilian population. The medical area progress and the arrising of new technologies made possible a human being progressive longevity increasing, and grows up, at every day, the number of persons that live over hundred years. From this growth, become more actuals the quuestions concerning to the familiar relationship among persons of different generations and cultures. The fact of the persons had a greater life perspective not make different the familiar relationship, but make bigger the complexity of such relationship, since the number of interacting persons is increasing. Each more time the grandfathers are having a more active participation in the family and society. Not ever the family succeed in satisfactorily to solve their conflicts. It needs the institutions help to guide the children education. Among these, there is the Escola de Pais do Brasil(EPB) which during forty nine years has contributed to improve the parents intergenerational relationship that have followed its courses of study. This thesis (MA) examines the contemporary family intergerational relationship and analyse the EPB evolution thinking. To achieve the proposed objective , it was used the bibliographic and documental methods. The bibliographic research had as purpose the survey of academic and cultural contributions over the subject. It was done a concerning literature revision, which helped to delimit and define the work aim. By analysing the EPB historical documents, such as minutes, newspapers, congress annals and others, it was possible to obtain sufficient data to understanding its history, to explain its objectives and to show the EPB thinking evolution over the intergenerational relationship in the contemporary families.