Vivências da maternidade tardia, cotidiano e qualidade de vida: a perceptiva feminina, Viçosa, MG

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Maria Cristina
• Orientador(a): Teixeira, Karla Maria Damiano
• Banca de defesa: Bartolomeu, Tereza Angélica , Andrade, Viviane Delfino Albuquerque
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Economia Doméstica
• Departamento: Economia familiar; Estudo da família; Teoria econômica e Educação do consumidor
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Maternidade tardia; Cotidiano; Qualidade de vida
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Late motherhood; Daily life; Life quality
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA DOMESTICA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3302

The Brazilian siciety is facing constant transformations, one of which is the change in family patterns and behaviors, which can be partly explained by the growing insertion of women in the marketplace. Administering work outside and family chores means an accumulation of roles and functions for women, besides one of the strategies adopted to relieve the conflit between different demands: delaying motherhood until after 35 years of age. This postponement is favored by the development of reproductive technologies which allow the dissociation between sexual activity and reproduction, so that people can decide which is the best moment for motherhood. Thus, women who decide for late motherhood face both frustration and happiness which will bring either positive or negative consequences which will affect their daily life and their own life quality and their family's. So, this qualitative research had the objective of analysing the perception of women who bore children after 35 years of age as to the influences of late motherhood on women's daily life and their family's and, consequently, on personal and family quality. Specifically, the goal was to design a women's socio-economic and demographic characterization ; identify the reasons which lead women to late motherhood; analyze women's perception of late motherhood on their daily life and their family's and on their life quality and their family's. Those interviewed were selected according to the criteria of the research, namely, women who had their first child with the minimum age of 35, in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, from 2000 to 2002, and the sample was composed of 11 women. Researches from the records of the Register of Born Alive (SINASC) in Viçosa, MG were used, as well as bibliographical researches,besides an interview based on a semi-structured model with women who experienced late motherhoood. Later, it was decided to analyze the content of the statements of those interviewed for data evaluation. Most of the interviewed women were married, had studied for at least eight years and their income was above three minimum salaries. Most of them had an only child, were submitted to a Cesarean section, and went to the doctor's office at least seven times for prenatal care. In opposition to the literature here focused, most of them did not choose for late motherhood. Some of them got married late; others, although being married, had difficulties to get pregnant; others postponed motherhood because they decided to get finantial stability before becoming a mother. The negative consequences identified were the lack of time for themselves and for their families due to the accumulation of duties and the difficulty to get pregnant again. They mentioned, as positive consequences, their belief that they had had a child in the right moment because they were finantially stable, and they felt emotionally more secure. It was observed that, despite their full time work and the lack of time for themselves and for their families, the women felt satisfied with late motherhood, because they were finantially more stable and could offer a better life quality for their families.