The Paternal Remoteness After The End Of a relationship: a qualitative study

This study aimed to investigate the reasons which lead some fathers to abdicate the paternity at the end of their marital relationship. Five fathers integrated this study and participated in family mediation in a Law Practice Center and that over the appointments with the Psychology team have shown having little or no contact with their children. The research employed a qualitative method, using semistructured interviews with open-ended questions. The results point out the difficulty of some men to accept a child who comes in at a moment not considered by them to be the ideal one. Moreover, some of them mention obstacles which make the access to their children difficult, thus harming the exercise of fatherhood.