O lugar dos avós na família : uma reflexão a partir da unidade letiva "a família, comunidade de amor" do 5º ano do ensino básico do programa de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica

  • Manuel Eliseu Antão Domingues (Student)

Student thesis: Master's Thesis

Abstract

Current society is characterized by demographic aging as a result of an increasing life expectancy and decreasing birth rates, which brings new challenges to family, state, and society as a whole. In this report I will deal with the subject of aging with an emphasis on family and intergenerational relations, the reasons for the institutionalization of the elderly, as well as the current role of the state as regards this age group, and I will advocate the presence of grandparents within the family. Looking at the deep changes that family relations between generations have gone through in the last decades, we can see that the connections of the young ones to the elderly have been gradually lost. In this light the family as an institution is in need of help nowadays since, by itself, it is no longer able to solve all the problems it faces. It must be supported by school, state, parishes and other agencies that have the duty to protect and promote the families' well-being starting with the ones in a more vulnerable situation. Consideration is given to the grandparents' role and importance in strengthening intergenerational relations within the family, promoting and defending their permanence there. At a time when unemployment is on the rise and separations and divorces unfortunately happen more and more, as well as other problems that affect families, grandparents are a tranquilizing influence. Family is society's fundamental and vital cell. It has a noble, unique and fundamental role in providing care, assistance and in maintaining grandparents in their habitual context.
Date of Award10 Jul 2020
Original languagePortuguese
Awarding Institution
  • Universidade Católica Portuguesa
SupervisorMaria Isabel Pereira Varanda (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • God
  • Family
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren
  • Parents
  • Love
  • Life
  • Aging
  • School

Designation

  • Mestrado em Ciências Religiosas

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