Argentina
Se creía que los adolescentes demoran cada vez más la emancipación del hogar y esto se convirtió en un tema urticante por las connotaciones sociales que hoy tiene. Objetivo: medir la relación hijos-padres para saber si, al final del siglo, los adolescentes la consideran parte de su proceso de crecimiento o, como antes, una necesidad para liberarse de aquellos. Hipótesis: ¿los adolescentes actuales conviven en un clima que les lleva a estar menos urgidos por lograr su independencia del hogar parental? Método: entrevistas libre y semi- dirigida con protocolo estandarizado. Resultados: durante 1994-99, 280 argentinos (18-20 años, ambos sexos) dijeron estar conformes con la relación (84% con la madre y 72% con el padre), que el clima familiar era agradable (85%) y que les respetaban sus decisiones (88% madre y 85% padre). Pensaban en independizarse (64%), pero no para librarse de los padres (85%), sino porque les daba alegría (71%), para hacer su experiencia (65%), para lograr independencia (57%) o porque se sentían adultos (52%). A la mayoría (53%) no le preocupaba librarse de los padres ni les causaba miedo (56%) marcharse y menos (85%) a perder a sus padres. Se postuló: 1. Se confirma que hay demora para vivir independientemente. 2. Tal postergación no se debe únicamente a lo económico –razón siempre unilateralmente invocada-, sino que el clima familiar armónico predispone para seguir viviendo con padres que encarnan los nuevos modelos parentales. 3. Marcharse estuvo asociado más al placer de ser protagonista que a librarse de padres opresores.
It was believed that adolescents delay more and more the emancipation from home and this became an updated topic for the social results that it has today. Our objective is to measure the relationship children- parents to know if, at the end of the century, adolescents consider it part of their process of growth or, as it was before, a necessity to be free from them. Hypothesis: do current adolescents cohabit in a climate that takes them to be less urged to achieve their independence from parents home? Method: free interviews and semi directed ones with standardized protocol. Results: during 1994-1999- two hundred and eighty Argentine (18-20 years, both sexes) said to be conformed with the relationship (84% with their mothers and 72% with their fathers), that the family climate was pleasant(85%) and that they were respected in their decisions (88% mother and 85% father). They thought in becoming independent (64%), not to get rid of their parents (85%) but because they will feel happy (71%),or to make their own experience (65%), to achieve independence (57%) or because they felt already mature (52%). Most of them (53%) neither cared get rid of their parents nor felt fear doing that (56%) and did not feel (85%) to be loosing their parents. It was confirmed that there is a delay to live independently. Such a postponement is not only owed to the economic situation, mostly the harmonic family climate predisposes to continue living with parents that embody new paternal models. . Leaving home is associated more to the pleasure of managering the own life than to getting rid of oppresor parents.